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Samuel   Watkrs    Allkrton. 

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A    HISTORY 


OF 


THE  ALLERTON  FAMILY 

In  The  United  States. 

1585  TO  1885, 

AND 

A  GENEALOGY  OF  THE  DESCENDANTS 
OF  ISAAC  ALLERTON, 

''Mayflower  Pilgrim,'''  Plytnouth,  Mass.,  1620. 

BY 

Walter  S.  Allerton, 

New   York  City,  1888. 


Revised  and  Enlarged  by  Horace  True  Currier, 

Chicago. 


PUBLISHED    BY 

Samuel  Waters  Allerton, 

Chicago,  Illinois, 
1900. 


PRESS    OF 


52-58  W.  JACKSON. 


PREFACE. 


Mr.  Samuel  Waters  Allerton,  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  in  issuing 
this  revised  edition  of  the  "Allerton  Family,"  does  not  intend  to 
detract  from  the  great  credit  to  be  given  Mr.  Walter  S.  Allerton  for 
his  publication  of  1888,  but  simply  to  add  facts  which  have  been 
found  since  that  time,  and  to  correct  errors  which  almost  invariably 
occur  in  Genealogies  through  incorrect  family  records  thought  to  be 
true  when  published,  but  afterward  found  otherwise. 

In  the  preface  to  the  edition  of  1888  Mr.  Walter  S.  Allerton  says, 
in  part: 

Pride  of  ancestry  is  common  to  all  ages  and  all  peoples,  and  it  is 
an  entirely  proper  and  justifiable  sentiment.  We  know  that  man,  like 
other  animals,  possesses  the  power  to  transmit  to  his  offspring  the 
mental  and  physical  characteristics  that  have  been  most  prominent  in 
himself.  Students  of  social  science  tell  us  that  the  children  of  crim- 
inals are  apt  to  prove  criminals  themselves,  and  other  things  being 
equal,  the  man  who  can  trace  his  descent  through  a  dozen  generations 
of  honest  men  is  for  that  very  reason  more  likely  to  prove  himself  an 
honest  man. 

The  history  of  the  Allerton  family  is  a  strong  proof  of  the  endur- 
ing quality  of  family  traits  and  characteristics,  both  physical  and 
mental,  for  we  find  in  members  of  two  branches,  that  have  been  entirely 
separated  for  two  centuries,  the  same  physical  appearance  and  the  same 
mental  peculiarities.  We  find  in  a  majority  of  the  family  to-day  many 
resemblances  in  personal  appearance  to  their  common  ancestor,  and 
we  find  still  more  prominent  the  same  peculiarities  of  mind  and  dis- 


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6  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

position.  We  are  proud  to  recognize  the  same  spirit  of  honesty  and 
independence  that  led  him  to  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  adventurers  of 
New  Plymouth,  and  the  same  broadness  of  mind  and  toleration  of  the 
opinions  of  others  that  brought  him  into  conflict  with  the  narrow 
spirit  of  puritanism.  We  claim  a  share  of  his  courage  and  his  enter- 
prise, and  we  admit  that  we  have  also  inherited  somewhat  of  his  quick 
temper  and  of  his  wandering  disposition  and  unsettled  spirit.  The 
Allertons  have  ever  been  wanderers;  they  can  point  to  no  one  place 
as  the  home  of  their  family,  the  same  restless  spirit  that  led  their  an- 
cestors up  and  down  upon  the  earth  has  appeared  to  be  always  with 
them.  It  is  only  in  a  few  rare  cases  that  we  find  the  son  continuing 
to  dwell  where  his  father  dwelt  before  him;  and  this  fact,  while 
affording  another  proof  of  the  possession  of  common  traits  of  char- 
acter, has  rendered  it  difficult  to  collect  a  complete  genealogical  record 
of  the  family. 

The  author  began  the  work  of  collecting  material  for  a  family 
history  some  ten  years  since,  and  pursued  it  in  such  time  as  could  be 
spared  from  the  practice  of  his  profession,  but  he  soon  found  that  an- 
other had  been  for  a  long  time  at  work  in  the  same  field.  The  late 
Mead  Allerton  of  Newark,  Wayne  County,  New  York,  after  working 
for  many  years  at  this  task,  left  at  his  death  a  large  and  valuable 
manuscript,  which  was  placed  in  the  author's  hands  by  his  widow,  and 
from  which  many  details  for  this  volume  were  obtained,  especially  in 
regard  to  the  fourth,  fifth  and  sixth  generations  of  the  Rhode  Island 
and  New  York  branches.  Mead  Allerton  had  not  been  able,  how- 
ever, to  collect  much  information  about  the  New  Jersey  branch,  and 
to  obtain  this  has  been  the  most  difficult  part  of  the  work. 

The  name  of  Allerton  is  one  that  is  comparatively  common  in  some 
parts  of  England,  and  there  are  several  families  now  in  the  United 
States  who  are  in  no  way  related  to  us,  being  emigrants  from  England 
themselves  or  descendants  of  such, — a  list  of  these  Allertons  will  be 
found  at  the  end  of  the  genealogical  record.  The  beauty  of  the  name 
has  also  caused  it  to  be  frequently  used  by  novelists  and  other  writers, 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  7 

and  it  has  also  been  occasionally  assumed  by  persons  not  belonging 
to  the  family,  some  of  whom  have  not  been  of  a  character  calculated 
to  reflect  credit  on  any  family. 

Where  nearly  every  one  to  whom  the  author  has  applied  for  in- 
formation has  gladly  responded,  it  may  seem  unfair  to  mention  any  in 
particular,  but  while  the  author  takes  this  opportunity  to  thank  all 
who  have  in  any  manner  assisted  him,  he  feels  that  the  members  of 
the  family  generally  ought  to  know  the  names  of  those  who  have  ren- 
dered particular  service.  Besides  Mead  Allerton  to  whom  the  greatest 
credit  is  due  for  many  years  of  patient  and  painstaking  research,  the 
author  has  received  valuable  assistance  from  the  following  persons: 

Mrs.  Jane  G.  Allerton,  of  Salem,  Ohio. 
James  M.  Allerton,  of  Port  Jervis,  New  York. 
Orville  H.  Allerton,  of  Newark,  New  York. 
Mrs.  Clara  E.  Delap,  of  Osnaburgh,  Ohio, 
Charles  B.  Allerton,  of  Keelersville,  Michigan. 
Ezekiel  Allerton,  of  Roanoke,  Indiana. 
Lemira  C.  Allerton,  of  Youngstown,  Ohio. 
Jasper  Tilden,  of  Jefferson,  Wisconsin. 
Mrs.  James  Kynett,  of  Alliance,  Ohio. 
H.  D.  Hutson,  of  Deerfield,  Ohio. 

Walter  S.  Allerton. 
New  York,  December,  1888. 

Up  to  the  present  time  some  facts  concerning  the  early  generations 
have  not  been  found  in  town,  church  or  probate  records,  and  for  that 
reason  have  been  questioned,  but  a  careful  study  of  all  the  facts  attest 
the  statement  that,  in  the  main,  they  are  undoubtedly  true.  Reference 
is  made  in  this  connection  to  the  Appendix  added  to  this  edition. 

Mr.  Mead  Allerton  did  not  keep  a  record  of  the  authority  from  , 
which  he  derived  his  information  but,  when  of  sufficient  character  to 
satisfy  him,  the  simple  statement  of  facts  was  made.     In  these  early 
generations  Mr.  Walter  S.  Allerton  merely  completed  his  work.     In 


8  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

the  later  generations,  with  few  exceptions,  this  edition  is  practically 
a  reprint  of  that  of  1888,  so  ably  compiled  by  the  author. 

The  arrangement  of  families  has  been  materially  changed  and  in 
order  that  reference  may  be  quickly  made  the  following  suggestions 
are  offered,  viz.: 

The  figures  directly  preceding  and  following  each  name  indicate 
the  number  of  the  child  in  the  family  and  the  generation,  the  marginal 
number  is  the  general  number. 

With  the  head  of  each  family  is  shown  his  marginal  number, 
below  you  find  his  children,  turn  back  where  his  marginal  number 
shows  him  as  a  child  and  you  find  his  parents.  Note  the  marginal 
number  against  any  one  of  his  children,  turn  forward  to  where  that 
number  appears  as  the  head  of  a  family,  and  there  you  will  find  that 
child's  children. 

This  edition  of  the  Allerton  Family  is  published  with  the  knowl- 
edge and  consent  of  Mr.  Walter  S.  Allerton,  who  has  also  assisted  in 
its  preparation.  The  major  portion  is  a  reprint  of  the  first  edition. 
It  is  hoped  that  each  family  will  enter  the  later  records  of  their  in- 
dividual family  on  the  blank  pages  at  the  end  of  the  volume. 

Horace  True  Currier. 
Chicago,  Illinois,  1900. 


THE   ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


In  reviewing  the  history  of  the  Allerton  Family  one  very  marked 
feature  which  arrests  our  attention  is  the  slow  growth,  in  numbers, 
prior  to  about  the  year  1*750. 

Isaacs  of  the  Mayflower,  left  but  one  son  who  remained  in  New 
England,  viz.:  Isaac^,  and  he  in  turn  left  Isaac^,  born  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  and  Willoughby^,  born  in  Virginia. 

The  Virginia  line  is  not  carried  forward,  in  detail,  although  proper 
reference  is  made  to  it,  for  the  reason  that,  as  early  as  lYGO,  the  male 
line  became  extinct.  This  line  is  not  important,  therefore,  to  later 
generations  of  Allertons. 

Isaac^  born  in  New  Haven  in  1655  thus  becomes  the  progenitor  of 
all  Allertons  of  the  later  generations. 

Since  1750  the  family  has  largely  increased  in  numbers,  and  at  the 
present  time  there  are  several  hundred  persons  living  who  are  Allertons 
by  birth  and  lineal  descendants  of  Isaac  of  the  Mayflower. 

His  descendants  may  be  said  to  embrace  three  branches;  the  Rhode 
Island  branch,  being  the  descendants  of  John^;  the  New  York  branch, 
being  the  descendants  of  Isaac^  and  the  New  Jersey  branch,  being 
the  descendants  of  Zachariah^. 

The  history  of  the  Rhode  Island  branch  is  very  brief;  they  resided 
in  Rhode  Island  and  in  Windham  County,  Connecticut,  and  were  gen- 
erally farmers,  but  many  of  the  sons  of  this  family  died  young  and 
unmarried.  The  branch  is  now  practically  extinct,  there  being  only 
one  male  descendant  of  John^  now  known  to  be  living. 


10  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

The  New  York  branch,  after  residing  in  Connecticut  about  fifty 
years,  removed  to  Dutchess  county,  in  New  York,  and  to  the  county 
of  Greene,  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Hudson,  where  many  of  them  reside 
to  this  day,  and  from  there  they  gradually  followed  the  general  ten- 
dency of  settlement  to  the  west,  and  while  they  are  scattered  over  the 
entire  country,  by  far  the  greater  number  reside  in  the  States  of  New 
York,  Ohio,  Michigan  and  Illinois;  while  in  New  England,  the  original 
home  of  the  Pilgrims,  there  are  now  less  than  a  dozen  members. 

This  branch,  which  is  entitled  to  the  honor  of  being  the  older  and 
principal  branch  of  the  family,  has  always  been  the  most  successful, 
and  has  contained  the  larger  number  of  men  who  have  attained  to 
positions  of  eminence  in  professional  or  business  life. 

The  New  Jersey  branch  has  always  shown  a  roving  and  unsettled 
disposition,  their  history  has  been  the  most  varied  and  the  most  diffi- 
cult to  trace.  It  is  certain  that  Jesse*  had  at  least  two  other  sons  be- 
sides Zachariah^,  but  no  trace  of  any  of  their  descendants  have  ever 
been  found.  There  is  a  tradition,  which  seems  to  be  entitled  to  accept- 
ance, that  two  sons  of  Jesse,  after  removing  to  New  Jersey  with 
Zachariah,  continued  still  further  into  the  wilderness,  and  settling  in  the 
Wyoming  valley,  were  killed  with  all  their  families  at  the  time  of  the 
celebrated  massacre.  There  is  no  mention  of  the  name  in  any  of  the 
accounts  of  the  massacre,  but  this  is  not  conclusive  proof  that  they 
were  not  there  at  the  time,  and  in  most  accounts  we  find  the  names  of 
several  families  of  Athertons  among  the  victims,  and  this  we  know  to 
have  been  the  most  common  of  the  many  mistaken  forms  which  the 
family  name  has  often  taken.  It  has  been  very  difficult  to  obtain  facts 
as  to  names,  dates,  etc.,  of  the  members  of  the  New  Jersey  branch  of 
the  fifth,  sixth  and  seventh  generations,  and  the  rule,  which  has  been 
invariably  adhered  to,  of  rejecting  every  item  about  which  there 
seemed  to  be  even  the  suspicion  of  doubt,  has  rendered  it  impossible 
to  give  many  details  of  their  lives.  But  the  chain  of  descent  has  been 
traced  in  every  case  with  absolute  certainty,  so  that  every  living 
member  of  the  family  can  readily  follow  his  own  line  back  to  the  com- 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  11 

mon  ancestor,  and  can  ascertain  the  exact  degree  of  relationship 
existing  between  himself  and  any  other  Allerton.  The  sons  and 
grandsons  of  Zachariab  gradually  drifted  from  New  Jersey  westward 
through  Pennsylvania  to  north-eastern  Ohio,  where  the  greater  num- 
ber of  his  descendants  now  reside,  although  many  of  them  are  found 
in  Michigan,  Indiana  and  other  Western  States. 

The  great  majority  of  the  family  are  to-day,  as  they  have  always 
been,  farmers.  They  have  never  showed  a  tendency  to  city  life,  and 
very  few  are  at  present  dwelling  in  any  of  our  large  cities.  Outside 
of  farming  the  occupation  most  favored  has  been  that  of  machinist. 

Each  of  the  learned  professions  has  had  several  representatives. 
The  clergymen  have  been  Reuben",  Isaac'  and  Job  D.^,  of  whom 
only  the  latter  is  now  living.  The  physicians  were  Reuben^ 
Cornelius ^  Goodwin"  and  Cornelius «,  all  able  and  successful  prac- 
titioners. 

The  three  lawyers  are  Russell^  of  Scituate,  Rhode  Island,  who 
died  in  1815,  and  James  M.^,  of  Port  Jervis,  New  York,  and  Walter 
S.9,  of  New  York  City,  both  of  whom  are  now  living. 

Members  of  the  family  have  fought  in  all  the  wars  that  have 
occurred  since  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims,  including  the  old  Indian 
wars,  the  Revolution,  the  War  of  1812,  the  Mexican  war  and  the 
Rebellion — thus  showing  their  willingness  to  go  forth  to  battle  for 
the  defense  and  preservation  of  that  liberty  which  their  great  ances- 
tor had  done  so  much  to  establish.  History  also  shows  that  many 
Allertons  served  the  Colonies  and  Nation  in  civil  capacities. 

The  Allerton  family  has  as  yet  given  no  great  names  to  history, 
they  have  never  sought  office  or  the  rewards  of  political  strife,  the 
occupations  to  which  they  have  generally  devoted  themselves  have 
never  been  those  that  lead  to  fame  or  to  political  preferment,  they 
have  been  farmers,  merchants  or  mechanics,  and  have  been  content  to 
be  good  citizens  and  honest  men.  The  whole  history  of  the  family  is 
remarkably  free  from  moral  blemishes. 

Physically,  they  have  always  been  a  hardy  and  vigorous  race,  and 


12  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

in  general  long  lived,  many  living  to  be  ninety  or  more,  and  one,  the 
late  Samuel  W.  Allerton,  of  Newark,  New  York,  being  ninety-nine 
years  and  eight  months  old  at  his  death.  In  appearance  the  majority 
are  large  framed,  rather  over  than  under  middle  height,  fair  complex- 
ioned  with  dark  hair  and  eyes,  many  have  brown  or  sandy  hair  and 
some  blue  or  gray  eyes,  but  few,  if  any,  have  been  known  who  were 
of  a  distinctly  blonde  type.  In  youth  they  are  generally  slender  and 
quick  of  action,  and  many  have  been  noted  for  strength  and  dexterity, 
but  they  are  apt  to  become  quite  fleshy  in  old  age.  The  most  prom- 
inent physical  characteristic  of  the  family  is  the  shape  of  the  forehead, 
eyes  and  nose,  this  can  easily  be  seen  by  taking  a  number  of  portraits 
of  members  of  all  branches,  and  placing  cards  over  them  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  show  only  the  upper  half  of  the  face,  when  a  remarkable 
similarity  will  be  noticed  by  any  one. 

They  are  a  quick  tempered  race  and  apt  to  act  upon  impulse,  very 
decided  in  both  likes  and  dislikes,  and  usually  rather  uncommu- 
nicative and  reserved,  not  very  ready  to  make  new  friends  but  firm  in 
their  attachment  to  old  ones. 


THE   ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


ISAAC    ALLERTON. 


The  exact  time  or  place  of  Isaac  Allerton's  birth  is  not  at  present 
known  to  his  descendants  in  the  United  States.  He  probably  belonged 
to  an  old  and  honorable  family  of  mixed  Saxon  and  Danish  descent, 
that  had  been  for  many  centuries  located  in  the  south-eastern  part  of 
England,  many  representatives  of  which  are  still  to  be  found  in  Suffolk 
and  the  adjacent  counties.  He  was  born  between  the  years  1583  and 
1585,  and  resided  at  London  for  some  time  prior  to  removing  to  Hol- 
land, in  1609.  It  is  said,  however,  that  he  was  about  twenty-six  years 
old  when  he  went  to  Holland  and  about  thirty-seven  when  he  came  to 
Plymouth.  The  records  of  St.  Dionis  Backchurch,  London,  give  the 
marriage  of  Edward  Allerton,  of  that  parish,  to  Rose  Davis,  of  St. 
Peter's,  Cornhill,  14  February,  lo'ZQ-SO.  Edward  died  in  1590.  Rose 
survived  him  six  years  and  died  in  1596.  Possibly  they  were  the  par- 
ents of  Isaac  Allerton  and  his  sister  Sarah.  He  is  generally  admitted 
to  have  been  the  wealthiest  of  all  the  Pilgrims,  and  is  one  of  the  few 
among  them  to  whom  Bradford  and  other  contemporaneous  writers 
always  give  the  prefix  "Mr.",  which  in  those  days  was  used  as  an 
index  of  superior  family  or  respectability.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
three  upon  whom  the  privilege  of  citizenship  was  conferred  by  the 
city  of  Leyden,  his  associates  in  this  honor,  which  was  given  February 
5,  1614,  being  William  Bradford,  afterwards  Governor  of  the  Ply- 
mouth colony,  and  Degory  Priest,  his  brother-in-law.  He  was  first 
married,  as  we  learn  from  the  records  in  the  Staathuis  or  City  Hall  of 


14  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Leyden,  on  November  4,  1611,  to  Mary  Norris,  of  Newbury,  in  Eng- 
land. The  witnesses  to  this  marriage  were  Edward  Southworth, 
Richard  Masterson  and  Randolph  Tickens;  for  the  bride,  Anna  Fuller 
and  Dillon  Carpenter. 

No  one  in  the  whole  Leyden  colony  was  more  efficient  and  emi- 
nently useful  in  all  the  preparations  for  their  departure  for  America. 
At  the  time  of  the  sailing  of  the  Pilgrims  he  had  four  children,  all 
born  in  Holland,  three  of  whom,  Bartholomew,  Remember  and  Mary, 
came  over  with  their  parents  in  the  Mayflower,  while  the  youngest, 
Sarah,  remained  behind  and  came  over  later  with  her  aunt,  Sarah 
Priest,  sister  of  Isaac  Allerton,  who  was  married  first  in  London  to 
John  Vincent.  She  married  second  in  Leyden,  at  the  same  time  of 
her  brother's  mai'riage,  Degory  Priest,  (Hatter  from  London).  He 
died  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  1  January,  1620-1.  His  widow,  who  had 
remained  behind,  married  third  at  Leyden,  Godbert  Godbertson, 
who  came  to  Plymouth  with  his  wife,  in  the  Ann,  1623,  and  both 
died  in  1633. 

As  was  natural  at  that  season  of  the  year,  the  voyage  on  the  May- 
flower was  a  long  and  stormy  one,  and  disease  and  death  were  already 
at  vrork  among  the  over-crowded  passengers  of  the  little  vessel,  when 
on  November  9,  at  break  of  day  the  sandy  hills  of  Cape  Cod  became 
visible  upon  the  western  horizon.  Their  original  design  had  been  to 
make  their  settlement  near  the  mouth  of  the  Hudson,  and  accordingly 
they  put  about  at  once  to  the  south,  but  soon  found  themselves  en- 
tangled in  the  shoals  of  that  dangerous  coast,  and  being  all  of  them, 
especially  the  women  and  children,  heartily  sick  of  confinement  within 
the  narrow  limits  of  the  little  vessel,  the  desire  to  be  once  more  on 
land  became  too  strong  to  be  resisted.  The  captain  also,  having  been 
bribed  by  the  Dutch  West  India  Company  not  to  carry  them  to  the 
Hudson,  declared  that  further  progress  to  the  south  was  impossible 
and  putting  about  once  more  to  the  north,  they  doubled  the  northern 
extremity  of  the  Cape  next  day,  and  came  to  anchor  in  Cape  Cod 
harbor  to  ride  out  a  storm. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  15 

This  land,  upon  which  they  had  now  decided  to  settle,  being  in  the 
forty-second  degree  of  latitude  was  without  the  territory  of  the  Virginia 
company,  and  therefore  the  charter  they  held  became  useless;  and  some 
symptoms  of  faction  and  of  an  inclination  to  throw  off  all  authority 
appearing  among  the  servants  who  had  been  hired  in  England.  It  was 
thought  best  by  the  leaders  of  the  Colony  that  they  should  enter  into 
an  assocation  for  self  government  and  bind  themselves  to  be  governed 
by  the  will  of  the  majority;  and  accordingly,  on  the  11th  day  of  No- 
vember, 1620  (old  style)  there  was  drawn,  on  the  lid  of  a  chest  on 
board  of  the  Mayflower,  at  Cape-Codd,  and  signed  by  forty-one  of 
the  principal  men  of  the  first  band  of  Pilgrims,  a  platform  of  govern- 
ment known  as  the  Compact,  and  which  gave  to  these  people  the 
claim  of  being  the  first  "Signers"  of  the  now  United  States  of 
America.     The  following  is  the  full  text  of  the  Compact: 

m  yc  n^/nc  op  goj).    ^cdch. 

We  whofe  names  are  underwritten,  the  loyal  fubjects  of 
our  dread  Sovereigne  Lord,  King  James,  by  ye  grace  of 
God,  of  Great  Britaine,  France  and  Ireland,  King,  de- 
fender of  ye  faith,  etc.,  having  undertaken  for  ye  glory  of 
God  and  advancement  of  ye  Christian  faith,  and  honour 
of  our  King  and  countrie,  a  voyage  to  plant  ye  firft  Colonie 
in  ye  northerne  parts  of  Virginia,  doe  by  thefe  prefents 
folemnly,  and  mutually,  in  ye  prefence  of  God,  and  of  one 
another,  covenant  and  combine  ourfelves  togeather  into  a 
civil  body  politik  for  our  better  ordering  and  prefervation 
and  furtherance  of  ye  end  aforefaid,  and  by  vertue  hearof 
to  enacte,  conftitute  and  frame  fuch  just  and  equal  lawes, 
ordinances,  acts,  conftitutions  and  offices  from  time  to  time, 
as  fhall  be  thought  moft  meete  and  convenient  for  ye  gen- 
erall  good  of  ye  Colonie,  unto  which  we  promife  all  due 
fubmiffion  and  obedience.  In  witnes  whereof  we  have 
hereunder  fubfcribed  our  names  at  Cape-Codd  ye  ii  of 
November  in  ye  year  of  ye  raigne  of  our  Sovereigne  Lord, 
King  James  of  England,  France  and  Ireland  ye  eighteenth, 
and  of  Scotland  ye  fiftie-fourth  Ano  Dom.  1620. 


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Isaac  Allerton  was  the  fifth  signer  of  the  Compact,  the  names 
which  precede  his  being  those  of  John  Carver,  William  Bradford, 
Edward  Winslow,  and  Elder  William  Brewster  (afterward  his  father- 
in-law).    His  son-in-law,  Degory  Priest,  was  the  twenty-ninth  signer. 

They  remained  at  anchor  in  Cape  Cod  Harbor  for  five  weeks, 
during  which  time  the  men  made  many  excursions  to  explore  the  sur- 
rounding country,  while  the  women  were  taken  on  shore  to  wash  the 
clothing.  Finally,  having  selected  a  place  for  their  settlement,  on 
Monday,  December  22,  1620  (llth  of  December,  1620,  O.  S.),  a  date 
which  by  their  act  has  been  rendered  one  of  the  landmarks  of  history, 
they  landed  at  Plymouth,  and  at  once  set  about  the  erection  of  a  store- 
house for  their  goods,  and  dwellings  for  themselves.  But  even 
before  their  landing  several  of  their  number  had  died,  and  although 
the  winter  proved  to  be  an  unusually  mild  one,  it  was  still  far  more 
severe  than  those  to  which  they  had  been  accustomed,  and  this  to- 
gether with  their  enfeebled  condition  after  the  confinement  of  the 
voyage  and  the  want  of  proper  food  and  shelter,  caused  such  sickness 
among  the  colonists  that  at  times  there  were  no  more  than  six  or 
seven  of  them  well  enough  to  nurse  the  sick,  and  by  the  coming  April 
forty-four,  or  nearly  one-half,  had  died,  and  among  them  were  Carver, 
the  first  governor,  and  his  wife,  and  Mary  the  wife  of  Isaac  Allerton, 
who  died  Februai-y  25th,  1621,  While  on  the  Mayflower  in  the 
harbor  of  Cape  Cod,  she  had  been  delivered  of  a  child,  still-born,  and 
the  hardships  and  privations  of  that  terrible  winter  proved  too  much 
for  her  strength  thus  enfeebled. 

The  first  entry  in  the  records  of  the  Plymouth  Colony  is  an  in- 
complete list  of  "The  Meersteads  and  Garden  Plottes"  assigned  to 
those  who  came  out  on  the  Mayflower,  at  the  first  division  of  land. 
Each  of  these  "Garden  Plottes"  contained  one  "aker,"  The  list  and 
diagram  is  as  follows: 


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The  North  Side. 


The  South  Side. 


Peter  Brown. 
John  Goodman. 
Mr.  Brewster. 


Highway. 


John  Billington. 
Mr.  Isaac  Allerton. 
Francis  Cooke, 
Edward  Winslow. 


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It  will  be  noticed  that  the  honorable  prefix  "Mr."  is  here  given  to 
Brewster  and  Allerton  only. 

The  Street  is  now  called  Leyden  street  and  leads  from  the  harbor 
westward. 

It  is  probable  that  Isaac  Allerton  built  a  house  on  his  "Garden 
Plotte,"  but  if  he  did  he  did  not  occupy  it  during  the  entire  period  of 
his  residence  in  Plymouth,  for  in  1635,  he  lived  at  Rocky  Nook,  on 
Jones'  River  in  Kingston,  in  a  house  which  he  afterwards  sold  "to  my 
well  beloved  sonne- in-law  Thomas  Cushman,"  the  location  of  which  is 
still  pointed  out  near  the  celebrated  Elder's  spring. 

In  March  the  colonists  had  grave  apprehension  of  trouble  with 
the  Indians.  On  the  night  of  the  twenty-second  an  attack  was  ex- 
pected and  watch  was  kept,  but  there  was  no  appearance  of  hostility, 
and  as  the  old  chronicle  says,  "  The  next  day,  Friday,  Captain  Standish 
"and  Mr.  Allerton  went  venturously  to  visit  King  Massasoit,  and  were 
"received  by  him  after  his  manner.  He  gave  them  3  or  4  groundnuts 
"and  some  tobacco." 

As  the  result  of  this  visit  a  treaty  of  peace  was  concluded,  which 
held  good  for  more  than  fifty  years. 

In  April,  Governor  Carver  died,  and  William  Bradford  was  then 
chosen  Governor,  and  Isaac  Allerton  Assistant  Governor,  a  position 
which  he  held  until  1624,  and  probably  longer. 

In  September,  1621,  a  party  of  ten,  including  Isaac  Allerton,  went 
by  water  to  explore  what  is  now  the  harbor  of  Boston,  and  to  visit  the 
Indians  who  lived  in  that  vicinity,  and  on  this  trip  the  first  headland 
at  Nantasket,  at  the  entrance  to  the  harbor  was  called  Point  Allerton, 
a  name  which  it  still  retains,  although  it  has  sometimes  been  spelled 
Alderton;  an  adjoining  hill  in  the  town  of  Hull  was  also  known  for 
many  years  as  Allerton  Hill.  For  several  years  after  the  landing  of 
the  colonists  Isaac  Allerton  was  engaged,  as  were  all  the  rest,  in 
building  houses  and  barns  for  shelter,  in  clearing  and  tilling  the  soil, 
and  in  managing  with  the  other  leading  men,  the  affairs  of  the  little 
settlement.     We  find  him  participating  in  another  division  of  land  in 


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the  spring  of  1624,  when  seven  acres,  "on  the  south  side  of  the  Brook 
to  the  Baywards,"  were  set  off  for  him. 

In  1626,  he  married  Fear  Brewster,  the  daughter  of  Elder  William 
Brewster,  who  had  come  over  in  the  ship  Ann  with  her  sister, 
Patience,  in  1623.  (See  Appendix,  note  A.)  She  was  a  woman  of 
pleasing  appearance  and  of  a  pious  disposition,  as  we  are  told,  and  she 
is  interesting  to  us  as  being  the  mother  of  that  Isaac  Allerton,  the 
second  of  the  name,  from  whom  the  Allerton  family  is  descended. 
She  died  December  12,  1634. 

In  the  fall  of  1626,  Isaac  Allerton  was  sent  by  the  colonists  to 
England,  to  obtain  certain  supplies  for  them  of  which  they  were  in 
great  need,  and  to  arrange  if  possible  a  composition  with  the  Adven- 
turers, as  those  men  who  had  advanced  the  funds  for  the  colony  were 
called.  Bradford  says  that  he  was  selected  as  the  agent  of  the 
colonists  in  this  matter  as  "  being  well  qualified  by  education  and 
experience,  and  having  the  confidence  of  the  Merchants  of  London," 
and  these  advantages  of  education  and  experience  in  the  affairs  of  the 
world,  enabled  him  to  manage  the  affairs  of  the  colony  with  signal 
success  for  a  time,  but  beyond  doubt  they  were  the  natural  causes  of 
the  disagreements  which  afterward  took  place. 

In  the  spring  of  1627  he  returned  with  the  draft  of  a  composition, 
"drawn  by  the  best  counsel  of  law  they  could  get  to  make  it  firm." 
By  this  contract,  which  was  dated  at  London,  November  15,  1626,  the 
Adventurers  sold  to  the  Colony  their  entire  interest  in  the  settlement 
for  £1800,  "to  be  paid  at  the  Royal  Exchange,  at  London,  every 
"Michaelmas,  in  nine  annual  installments  of  £200,  each,"  and  it  was 
provided  that  they  were  to  forfeit  thirty  shillings  per  week,  for  every 
week  the  debt  was  not  paid  after  it  was  due.  This  composition  was 
unanimously  sanctioned,  and  Isaac  Allerton  was  at  once  sent  back  to 
England  with  full  authority  to  ratify  and  confirm  it. 

At  the  same  time  the  entire  trade  of  the  colony  for  a  period  of  six 
years,  was  bound  to  William  Bradford,  Edward  Winslow,  Isaac 
Allerton,  and  several  others,  in  consideration  of  their  assuming  the 


20  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

entire  indebtedness,  amounting  in  all  to  about  £2400,  and  in  addition 
they  were  to  pay  the  Colony  £50  per  annum  in  hoes  and  shoes. 

Having  satisfactorily  arranged  the  composition  with  the  Adven- 
turers and  paid  them  their  first  installment  of  £200,  and  having  paid 
other  debts,  Isaac  Allerton  returned  to  Plymouth  in  the  spring  of 
1628,  bringing  with  him  a  supply  of  goods,  and  also  a  patent  for  a 
trading  station  on  the  Kennebec,  but  when  they  came  to  compare  the 
patent  with  the  region  to  which  it  applied,  they  found  it  "so  strait 
and  ill  bounded,"  that  he  was  again  sent  to  England,  for  the  third 
time,  to  obtain  the  enlargement  and  correction  of  this  patent,  and  also 
a  new  patent  for  Plymouth,  and  to  arrange  for  the  removal  of  the 
remainder  of  the  church  at  Leyden.  He  was  compelled  to  return  to 
Plymouth  without  accomplishing  all  he  had  been  desired  to  do,  but 
being  immediately  sent  back  again,  in  August,  1629,  he  had  better 
success,  and  obtained  the  desired  patent  January  29,  1630.  He  went 
to  England  several  times  after  this  on  business  for  the  colonists  or  for 
himself,  crossing  the  ocean  in  all  seven  times. 

About  this  time,  1630,  began  his  trouble  with  the  colonists,  or 
rather  with  Governor  Bradford,  the  true  cause  of  which  it  is  difficult 
to  ascertain,  and  with  a  full  account  of  which  I  shall  not  weary  the 
reader.  Bradford's  version  can  be  found,  written  with  all  the  energy 
and  rancour  of  his  narrow  and  prejudiced  mind,  in  the  pages  of  his 
famous  journal,  but  it  is  a  series  of  complaints  rather  than  a  statement 
of  facts,  and  evidently  fails  to  state  the  true  grounds  of  the  disagree- 
ment. We  might  offset  the  complainings  of  Bradford  with  the 
statements  of  those  who  were  better  able  to  know  the  true  value  of 
Isaac  Allerton's  services  to  the  colony;  thus  James  Sherley,  one  of 
the  Adventurers  and  a  steadfast  friend  of  the  colonists,  writes,  March 
8,  1629,  "He  hath  been  a  truly  honest  friend  to  you  all,  either  there 
"or  here.  And  if  any  do,  as  I  know  some  of  them  are  apt  to  speak  ill 
"of  him,  believe  them  not."  And  again  on  March  19,  1629,  he  writes, 
in  a  letter  signed  also  by  Timothy  Hatherly,  a  friend  of  the  colonists 
at  London,  "But  the  Lord  so  blessed  his  labours  (even  beyond  expec- 


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"tation  in  these  evil  days),  as  he  obtained  the  love  and  favour  of  great 
"men  in  repute  and  place,  he  got  granted  all  Mr,  Winslow  desired  in 
"  his  letters  to  me  and  more  also,"  Many  similar  statements  might 
be  quoted  from  letters  and  writings  of  other  friends  to  the  colony  in 
England,  while  on  the  other  hand  Bradford  complains  bitterly  that 
too  much  money  had  been  expended  in  obtaining  a  charter,  and  that 
he  had  sometimes  endeavored  to  further  his  own  interests  rather  than 
those  of  the  colony.  But  those  who  care  to  examine  into  the  merits 
will  inevitably  come  to  the  conclusion  reached  by  a  painstaking  and 
impartial  historian,  that  'As  an  agent  Mr,  AUerton  appears  to  have 
"been  indefatigable  in  his  attempts  to  promote  the  interests  of  his 
"employers.  He  was  a  person  of  uncommon  activity,  address  and 
"enterprise." 

The  true  cause,  however,  of  this  difficulty  with  the  colonists  and 
with  Bradford  in  particular,  is  undoubtedly  to  be  found  in  the  fact, 
that  he  was  in  mind,  education  and  practice  far  more  liberal  than  they, 
and  that  while  his  associations  in  England  with  the  merchants  of  Lon- 
don, and  the  officers  of  the  court  and  government  tended  to  still 
further  broaden  and  liberalize  his  views,  their  seclusion  in  the  forests 
and  among  the  dangers  of  the  little  settlement  at  Plymouth  was  most 
admirably  calculated  to  make  still  narrower  and  more  bigoted  natures 
that  were  already  inclined  to  the  most  puritanical  of  views. 

We  know  that  the  church  at  Leyden  took  offence  at  the  liberal 
tendencies  of  Isaac  Allerton,  that  the  colonists  were  greatly  offended 
at  his  apparently  innocent  mistake  in  employing  the  notorious  Morton 
of  Merry  Mount  as  his  secretary,  although  in  these  days,  Morton  would 
almost  pass  for  a  saint,  and  when  he  became  known  as  a  firm  friend 
of  Roger  Williams,  and  was  found  to  have  sheltered  and  protected 
many  of  the  oppressed  and  persecuted  Quakers,  the  cup  of  his  iniquity 
was  indeed  full  to  the  minds  of  the  colonists,  and  we  are  not  surprised 
to  hear  that  about  1636,  he  left  Massachusetts  in  consequence  of  the 
religious  intolerance  of  the  people,  and  went  to  New  Amsterdam  to 
live.     Like  most  of  his  descendants,  Isaac  Allerton,  though  a  just  and 


22  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

fair  minded  man,  was  of  a  quick  temper,  apt  to  resent  an  affront,  and 
impetuous  in  acting  upon  bis  impulses,  and  therefore,  when  once  a 
difference  had  arisen  between  him  and  a  majority  of  the  Plymouth 
colonists,  who  were  no  doubt  well  represented  by  their  narrow  and 
dogmatic  governor,  there  was  little  possibility  of  any  reconciliation, 
even  had  there  been  more  in  common  in  their  natures  and  their  ways 
of  life  and  thought. 

Moreover,  he  had  given  great  offence  by  embarking  extensively  in 
business  which  conflicted  in  many  ways  with  the  industries  of  the  col- 
ony. He  was  admittedly  the  first  merchant  of  New  England,  and  the 
founder  of  the  coasting  trade  and  the  fishing  industry.  We  find  early 
mention  of  vessels  owned  by  him,  and  he  was  the  first  to  welcome 
Winthrop  and  his  Company  to  the  shores  of  the  New  World.  Win" 
throp  says  in  his  journal,  imder  date  of  June  12,  1630,  "About  four 
"in  the  morning  we  were  near  our  port,  we  shot  off  two  pieces  of 
"ordinance  and  sent  our  skiff  to  Mr.  Pierce  (which  lay  in  the  harbor 

"and   had   been   there days   before);    about  an  hour  after   Mr. 

"Allerton  came  on  board  us  in  a  shallop  as  he  was  sailing  to  Pem- 
aquid."  In  1632  he  attempted  to  set  up  a  rival  trading  station  on  the 
Kennebec,  and  also  to  establish  one  on  the  Penobscot,  but  both  these 
enterprises  were  unsuccessful,  the  latter  station  being  broken  up  by 
the  French  in  1634.  In  1633,  Winthrop  records  that  he  fished  with 
light  boats  at  Marble  Harbor,  and  he  is  justly  regarded  as  the  founder 
of  Marblehead,  for  he  made  that  place  the  headquarters  of  his  fishing 
fleet,  built  a  large  warehouse,  and  resided  there  a  great  part  of  the 
time  with  his  son-in-law  Moses  Maverick,  until  his  liberal  views  again 
brought  him  into  trouble  with  the  General  Court,  as  they  had  pre- 
viously done  with  his  old  associates  at  Plymouth,  and  he  was  given 
"leave  to  depart  from  Marblehead." 

That  he  was  liberal  in  other  matters  as  well  as  in  religion,  we 
know  from  the  following  extract  from  the  records,  under  date  of 
December  2,  1633:  "Whereas,  Mr,  Will.  Bradford  was  appointed  in 
"the  behalf  of  the  Court  to  enter  upon  the  estate  of  Godbert  Godbert- 


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"son  and  Zarah  his  wife,  and  to  discharge  the  debts  of  the  said 
"Godbert  so  far  as  his  estate  will  make  good.  And  whereas,  the 
"greatest  part  of  his  debts  are  owing  to  Mr.  Isaack  Allerton  of  Plym., 
"Mercht.,  late  brother  of  the  said  Zarah.  The  said  Isaack  hath  given 
"leave  to  all  other  his  creditors  to  be  fully  discharged  before  he 
"receives  any  thing  of  his  particular  debts  to  himself,  desiring  rather 
"to  lose  all  than  other  men  should  lose  any." 

But  about  this  time  misfortunes  began  to  come  thick  and  heavy 
upon  him.  In  1634  his  trading  house  at  Machias  was  taken  by  the 
French  and  Indians  and  destroyed  by  fire  with  all  its  contents.  In 
February  of  the  same  year,  "  Mr.  Cradock's  house  at  Marblehead  was 
"burnt  down  about  midnight,  there  being  in  it  Mr.  Allerton  and  many 
"fishermen  whom  he  employed  that  season."  The  same  year,  return- 
ing from  a  trading  voyage  to  Port  Royal,  "his  pinace  was  cast 
'away  and  entirely  lost;"  and  on  December  12,  1634,  his  wife  died  at 
Plymouth. 

In  163.5  his  misfortunes  still  continued.  In  March,  he  was  notified 
to  leave  Marblehead  on  account  of  his  religious  views,  and  in  May 
he  transferred  all  his  houses,  buildings  and  stages  for  curing  fish  at 
that  place  to  his  son-in-law,  Moses  Maverick.  In  August  a  bark  be- 
longing to  him,  which  had  been  hired  to  transport  Rev.  Mr.  Avery 
and  his  family,  from  Newbury  to  Marblehead,  was  lost  at  Cape  Anne, 
and  twenty-one  persons  perished,  and  in  1636,  while  returning  from 
Penobscot,  he  was  himself  shipwrecked. 

From  1636  to  1646,  he  resided  most  of  the  time  at  New  Amster- 
dam, where  he  was  engaged  in  the  coasting  and  tobacco  trades,  having 
a  warehouse  on  the  East  River,  somewhere  near  where  the  foot  of 
Maiden  Lane  now  is.  That  his  intelligence  and  enterprise  were  thor- 
oughly appreciated  by  the  Dutch  settlers  is  shown  by  the  circumstance 
that  when,  in  1643,  a  Council  of  eight  were  chosen  from  among  the 
citizens,  nominally  to  assist  Governor  Kieft,  but  in  reality  to  manage 
him,  Isaac  Allerton  was  one  of  the  number.  While  living  at  New 
Amsterdam,  however,  he  made  many  voyages  to  Virginia  and  even  to 


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the  West  Indies,  and  frequently  visited  the  New  England  Colonies; 
and  notwithstanding:  the  treatment  he  had  received  he  often  rendered 
good  service  to  such  residents  of  the  Massachusetts  settlement  as  came 
in  his  way.  Thus  Winthrop  writes  in  1643:  "Three  ministers  which 
"were  sent  to  Virginia  were  wrecked  on  Long  Island;  Mr.  Allerton,  of 
"New  Haven,  being  there  took  great  pains  and  care  of  them,  and  pro- 
"cured  them  a  very  good  pinace  and  all  things  necessary." 

And  in  a  letter  from  one  John  Haynes  to  Governor  Winthrop,  it  is 
stated,  "There  is  late  news  by  a  vessel  that  came  to  the  Dutch  and 
"from  thence  to  New  Haven,  by  Mr.  Allerton.  The  substance  thus: 
"that  there  has  been  a  great  battle  between  the  King  and  Parliament 
"forces." 

In  1644,  he  was  wrecked  at  Scituate,  on  his  way  from  New  Haven 
to  the  Colonies,  and  at  this  time  we  find  the  first  mention  of  his  third 
wife.  The  date  of  this  marriage  is  not  known  nor  the  surname  and 
residence  of  his  wife;  her  first  name  was  Johanna,  and  he  is  generally 
thought  to  have  married  her  at  New  Haven,  but  more  probably  she 
came  from  Marblehead  or  Salem.  She  appears  to  have  been  a  woman 
of  a  most  excellent  character,  and  she  outlived  her  husband  many 
years.  At  the  time  of  this  marriage  Isaac  Allerton  must  have  been 
nearly  sixty  years  of  age  and  the  union  proved  to  be  a  childless  one. 

About  1646  Isaac  Allerton  became  a  permanent  resident  of  New 
Haven,  and  at  that  place  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life,  although 
making  occasional  trips  to  New  Amsterdam  and  Massachusetts.  He 
built  himself  a  "grand  house  on  the  Creek,  with  Four  Porches,"  on  a 
home  lot  of  two  acres.  One  of  the  "famous  spots"  in  New  Haven  is 
the  north-west  corner  of  Union  and  Fair  streets  where  the  house  stood. 
A  tablet  has  been  placed  on  the  present  building  bearing  this  full 
inscription: — "Isaac  Allerton,  a  passenger  of  the  "Mayflower,"  lived 
on  this  ground  from  1646  to  1659." 

It  was  in  this  house  that  the  regicide  Judges  Whalley  and  Goffe 
found  temporary  shelter  and  concealment  in  1661.  Stiles,  in  his  His- 
tory of  the  Regicide  Judges,  says  that  they  were  protected  by  Mrs. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  25 

Eyres,  but  in  this  he  is  in  error,  for,  having  been  born  in  1653,  she 
was  but  eight  years  old  at  the  time. 

It  was  Mrs.  Johanna  Allerton,  the  widow  of  Isaac  Allerton,  of  the 
Mayflower,  and  Elizabeth  Allerton,  daughter  of  her  son-in-law, 
Isaac^,  who  received  and  sheltered  the  judges. 

An  old  plan  of  New  Haven  in  1748,  shows  the  house  of  Simon 
Eyres,  a  descendant  of  his  in  this  location,  and  mentions  Isaac 
Allerton  as  the  original  owner.  When  he  lived  there  the  house  stood 
on  a  gentle  declivity  sloping  down  to  the  harbor  in  front  and  to  the 
creek  on  the  west,  affording  a  view  of  the  waters  of  the  Sound  even 
to  the  coast  of  Long  Island,  and  it  must  have  been  just  such  a  home 
as  would  be  most  pleasant  for  the  last  years  of  one  who  had  been  so 
long  a  follower  of  the  sea. 

We  find  many  mentions  of  Captain  Isaac  Allerton,  as  he  is  there 
called,  in  the  old  records  of  New  Haven. 

On  March  10,  164*7,  the  names  of  the  people  as  they  were  seated  in 
the  meeting  house  were  put  upon  record,  and  we  find  "Thomas  Nash, 
Mr.  Allerton  and  Bro.  Perry,"  assigned  to  "the  second  seat  of  the 
cross  seats  at  the  end."  It  is  to  be  noticed  that  as  usual  he  is  here 
given  the  honorable  prefix  "Mr." 

The  following  account  of  a  little  difficulty  which  Mrs.  Allerton 
had  with  the  officials  of  the  town,  during  her  husband's  absence  upon 
one  of  his  voyages,  shows  that  human  nature,  especially  as  it  develops 
itself  in  petty  officers,  was  the  same  then  as  now.  At  a  Court  held 
at  New  Haven,  August  6,  1650,  "Mr.  Allerton's  fence  was  com- 
"plained  of.  Jno.  Cooper  and  the  Marshall  informed  the  Court  that 
"  Mrs.  Allerton  hath  had  notice  of  it  three  times  and  yet  the  fence  is 
"not  mended,  but  two  places  remain  defective  as  John  Cooper  says." 
The  Court  ordered  that  Mr.  Allerton  pay  two  shillings  for  the  two 
defective  places,  each  time  they  have  so  warned.  The  fence  does  not 
appear  to  have  been  mended,  for  the  same  report  is  repeated  from  one 
court  to  another,  and  an  additional  fine  of  two  shillings  ordered  each 
time,  until  December,  when  "Mr.  Evans  saith  Mrs.  Allerton  desired 


26  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

"him  to  acquaint  the  Court  with  the  case."  The  explanation  being 
that  there  had  been  a  long  misunderstanding  between  her  and  John 
Cooper  about  the  location  of  the  fence  complained  of.  The  Court 
said  they  "must  rest  on  John  Cooper's  report  because  he  is  in  a  public 
"trust  in  this  matter  of  fence,  and  therefore  it  is  ordered  that  Mrs. 
"Allerton  pay  for  the  two  defects,  two  shillings." 

The  misfortunes  which  had  pressed  so  thickly  upon  him  during 
the  last  years  of  his  residence  in  Massachusetts,  as  to  gain  for  him  the 
name  of  the  "unlucky,"  do  not  appear  to  have  entirely  deserted  him 
yet,  for  we  find  the  following  record  under  date  of  November  2,  1652: 
"Robert  Paine  and  William  Meaker  were  complained  of  for  absence 
"from  training.  The  Court  was  informed  that  Mr.  Allerton  that 
"morning  sent  to  Goodyears  to  get  them  free  because  of  some  urgent 
"occasion  about  his  vessel.  The  Court  considering  that  he  did  send 
"to  ask  leave,  and  it  was  upon  that  occasion,  and  the  time  the  vessel 
"hath  lain,  and  the  afflicted  state  of  Mr.  Allerton  otherwise,  did  for 
"this  time  pass  it  over  without  a  fine." 

Isaac  Allerton  was  now  approaching  the  threescore  years  and  ten, 
which  are  the  generally  accepted  limit  of  human  existence;  his  life 
had  been  one  of  hardship,  activity  and  exposure;  his  son  Isaac  was 
now  grown  to  manhood,  and  able  to  manage  in  great  part  the  exten- 
sive, although  not  very  successful  business  in  which  he  had  been  so 
long  engaged,  and  for  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  he  seems  to  have 
resided  most  of  the  time  quietly  in  his  house  upon  the  Bay. 

He  died  about  the  beginning  of  the  year  1659,  being  then  in  all 
probability  nearly  seventy-five  years  old.  He  was  buried  in  the  old 
Burying  Ground  at  New  Haven,  occuping  the  square  in  the  very  heart 
of  the  present  city,  upon  which  stands  the  Old  State  House  and  three 
churches.  No  monument  or  grave-stone  has  ever  been  found,  nor  is 
there  any  record  of  one  being  among  those  that  were  removed  to  the 
new  Cemetery.  At  that  time  grave-stones  were  not  made  in  this 
country,  and  the  trouble  and  expense  of  importing  them  was  so  great 
that  but  few  of  durable  material  were  used.     But  there  can  be  little 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  27 

or  no  doubt  that  the  dust  of  one  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  reposes  be- 
neath the  Elms  of  New  Haven's  public  square.  An  Inventory  of  his 
estate,  taken  February  12,  1659,  was  presented  to  the  Court  April  5, 
1659.  "Mrs.  AUerton  being  asked  if  there  was  any  Will  by  her 
"husband,  answered  there  was,  but  she  thought  her  son  had  it  with 
"him,  who  was  now  gone  from  home."  On  July  5,  his  son,  having 
returned,  presented  the  Will,  but  the  estate  being  badly  insolvent  the 
business  was  referred  to  the  Court  of  Magistrates  in  October.  At 
that  Court  the  Avriting  presented  as  the  last  Will  and  Testament  of 
Isaac  AUerton,  although  informal  and  without  date,  was  sworn  to  by 
John  Harriman  and  Edward  Preston,  the  subscribing  witnesses,  as 
sealed  and  subscribed  by  Mr.  AUerton  deceased,  "whilst  he  had  the 
"use  of  his  understanding  and  memory  in  a  competent  degree." 

This  Will  was  little  else  than  a  few  memoranda  of  debts  due  to 
him,  which  he  desired  his  son  Isaac  and  his  wife  to  receive  and  pay 
out  to  his  creditors  as  far  as  they  would  go,  and  it  is  only  valuable  to 
us  as  showinor  the  nature  and  extent  of  his  business.  It  begins  thus: 
"An  account  of  the  debts  due  at  the  Dutch,"  meaning  at  New  Am- 
sterdam. 

Among  the  debts  are,  "  VOO  guilders  by  Tho.  Hall  by  arbitration 

"of  Captain  Willett  and  Augustus  Harman,  about  Captain  Scarlet 
"which  I  paid  out;"  "900  guilders  from  John  Peterson  the  Bore,  as  by 
George  Woolseys  book  will  appear."  One  item  which  helps  to  fix  the 
date  of  this  Will  approximately  is  a  memorandum  of  a  sum  owing 
him  from  Henry  Brassen,  for  rent  for  eighteen  months  from  October 
1656,  to  the  last  of  May  1658,  for  three  rooms  for  three  guilders  a 
week.  After  the  clause  constituting  his  son  and  wife  trustees,  he 
adds,  as  if  it  were  an  after-thought,  a  memorandum  of  "a  parcel  of 
book  lace  in  Captain  W^illett's  hands  1300  and  odd  Guilders."  Next 
to  this  is  the  place  of  the  seal,  and  it  concludes  with  these  two  sen- 
tences: "My  Brother  Brewster  owes  me  four  score  pounds  and  odd, 
"as  the  obligations  appear."  "  Besides  all  my  debts  in  Delaware  Bay 
"and  Virginia,  which  in  my  books  will  appear,  and  in  Barbadoes 
what  he  can  get."  Isaac  Alleetox,  Senior." 


28  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

No  portrait  of  Isaac  Allerton  has  come  down  to  us,  but  he  is  said 
to  have  been  slightly  above  the  average  height,  of  a  spare  but  muscular 
frame,  with  dark  hair  and  beard,  a  clear  complexion   and    strongly 
marked  features,  a  good  looking  rather  than  a  handsome  man.     In 
the  great  majority  of  his  descendants  there  can  be  noticed  a  great 
similarity  of  development  in  the  upper  portion  of  the  head  and  face, 
more  especially  noticeable  in  the  forehead,  eyes  and  nose,  and  there 
can  be  no  doubt  that  these  physical  marks,  together  with  certain  well 
defined  traits  of  character,  have  descended  to  us  from  our  common 
ancestor.     He  was  superior  to  all  of  his  associates  on  the  Mayflower, 
except  possibly  Winslow,  and  one  or  two  others,  in  education,  and 
superior  to  all  of  them  in  knowledge  of  the  world  and  familiarity  with 
business,  and  as  his  experience  in  these  matters  was  so  much  greater, 
his  mental  horizon  was  far  wider  and  his  views  more  liberal  and  more 
tolerant  of  the  opinions  of  others.     The  only  wonder  is  that  he  was 
able  to  agree  with  them  as  long  as  he  did.     The  services  which  he 
rendered  to  the  Colony  have  been  fully  appreciated  by  a  few  careful 
historians  only;  poetry  and   romance   have   combined  to  spread  the 
fame  of  Standish  the  soldier,  or  of  Aid  en  the  clerk,  while  the  record 
of  Allerton's  work  is  buried  in  the  dusty  recesses  of  English  ofiices, 
but  had  there  been  no  Standish  among  the  Colonists  there  could  have 
been  found  others  as  competent  to  battle  with  the  Indians,  while  it  is 
hardly  possible  that  any  man  among  them  could  have  accomplished 
all  that  Isaac  Allerton  did  in  London,  and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say 
that  the  very  existence  of  the  Plymouth  Colony  depended  for  a  time 
upon  the  success  of  his  negotiations  there. 

For  two  centuries  and  a  third  the  dust  of  the  Pilgrim  leader  has 
slumbered  beneath  the  elms  of  New  Haven,  but  his  memory  is  fresh 
to-day  and  will  always  endure,  not  only  in  the  hearts  of  his  descend- 
ants but  in  common  with  his  heroic  companions  of  the  Mayflower,  his 
name  will  be  forever  cherished  by  the  entire  people  of  that  mighty 
nation,  the  corner-stone  of  whose  foundations  was  so  deeply  and  so 
enduringly  laid  by  the  Pilgrims  of  Plymouth. 


mJ"^" 


Cornelia  (Allertox)  Shermax. 
(162.) 


SECOND    GENERATION. 


1  ^IsAAC^  Allerton  was  born  in  England  between  the  years  1583 

and  1585.  Married  first  in  Leyden,  Holland,  November 
4,  1611,  Mary  Norris  of  Newbury,  England,  who  died  in  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  February  25,  1625.  Married  second  in  1626  Fear,  daughter 
of  Elder  William  Brewster  (see  Appendix,  Note  A).  She  died  in 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  December  12,  1634.  He  married  third,  prior  to 
1644,  Johanna,  whose  maiden  name  is  not  known,  she  survived  him 
many  years,  and  died  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  1682.  He  died  in  New 
Haven  "  in  the  beginning  of  the  year  1659".  The  Inventory  of  his 
estate  was  taken  February  12,  1659,  and  was  presented  to  the  Court 
April  5,  1659. 

Children.     By  first  wife.     Born  in  Leyden^  Holland. 

2  1  Bartholomew, 2  born  about  1612.     He  came  over  on  the  May- 

flower with  his  parents,  and  was  a  resident  of  Plymouth 
in  1627,  at  the  division,  among  the  settlers,  of  the 
cattle  brought  from  England,  but  shortly  afterwards 
he  accompanied  his  father  to  London,  where  he  married 
and  had  children,  but  he  never  returned  to  America,  and 
so  far  as  is  known  no  descendant  of  hia-  has  ever  been 
found  in  this  country. 

8  2Remember2,  born  in  1614.  She  came  over  in  the  Mayflower, 
and  was  living  in  1627,  but  probably  died  soon  after, 
unmarried. 


30  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

4  ^  Mary  2,  born  June,   16 IG.      She   came   over  in  the  Mayflower, 

Married  in  1636  Thomas  Cushman,  and  from  this  family- 
came  the  Cushman  family  of  Massachusetts.  She  died  in 
1699,  the  last  survivor  of  the  Mayflower  Pilgrims. 

5  <Sarah2,  born  January,  1618.    Married  in  1637  Moses  Maverick, 

of  Marblehead.  She  had  a  large  family  of  children,  and 
died  about  1655  or  1656.  She  came  on  the  Ann  in  1623, 
in  care  of  her  aunt  Sarah  Priest. 

By  second  wife.     Born  in  Plymouth^  Mass. 

6  sisAAC^,  born  1630.   Married  first,  Elizabeth .    Second,  Eliza- 

beth Willoughby. 

Note. — Isaac  1  is  said  to  have  had  at  least  two  children,  beside  those  men- 
tioned above,  but  who  died  in  infancy,  one  of  whom  was  still-born  on  the  Mayflower 
Monday,  ii  December,  1620  (O.  S.)  This  was  the  second  child  born  since  the 
Pilgrims  left  Holland.— Gov.  Bradford's  Journal. 


THIKD    GENERATION. 


6  5 ISAAC  2  ( Isaac  1). 

Born  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1630.  Graduated  from  Har- 
vard College  in  1650,  being  in  the  seventh  class  that  graduated  from 
that  institution.  He  accompanied  his  father,  subsequently,  on  his 
voyages  between  Plymouth,  New  Haven,  New  Amsterdam  and  Vir- 
ginia, and  was  a&sociated  with  him  in  the  coasting  business.  After 
his  father's  death  in  1659,  he  purchased  from  the  creditors  of  his 
estate,  the  dwelling-house,  orchard  and  barn,  with  two  acres  of 
meadow,  and  in  the  New  Haven  Records  we  find  a  deed  recorded, 
dated  October  4,  1660,  by  which  he  conveys  to  his  "Mother-in-law, 
"Mrs.  Johanna  AUerton,  the  house  that  she  now  dwells  in  at  New 
"  Haven,  with  all  the  furniture  in  it  and  the  lands  and  appurtenances 
"belonging  to  it,  to  hold  and  enjoy  during  the  term  of  her  life,  and 
"afterward  to  return  into  the  possession  of  his  daughter  Elizabeth 
"Allerton  and  her  heirs,  and  in  case  of  her  dyeing  without  issue,  then 
"  to  return  to  him  the  first  donor,  and  his  heirs  and  executors  without 
"intermission." 

To  this  deed,  after  it  was  recorded,  was  added  on  the  margin  of  the 
book  the  following  "true  record"  of  a  postscript,  "This  deed,  though 
"never  witnessed  when  granted,  I  do  hereby  confirm,  to  all  intents  and 
"purposes,  as  if  it  had  been  authentically  witnessed,  and  so  sign  and 

"seal  the  same  in  presence  of 

John  Salmojt, 

"March  10,  William  Cobfield. 

"  1682-3.  Isaac  Allekton." 


32  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Isaac  married  as  early  as  1652  a  wife  whose  name  was  Elizabeth — 
but  her  maiden  name  or  the  exact  place  of  their  marriage  is  unknown. 
He  resided  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  had  three  children  born  there. 
His  wife  probably  died  about  1660. 

He  bought  land  as  early  as  1655  at  Wicomico,  Northumberland 
County,  Virginia,  to  which  place  he  probably  removed  after  the  death 
of  his  wife,  and  married  there  as  his  second  wife,  about  1663,  Elizabeth 
Willoughby,  daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  Willoughby.  Isaac  Aller- 
ton  was  her  third  husband,  she  being  widow  of  Simon  Overzee  and 
Colonel  George  Colclough.     (See  Appendix  note  B.) 

The  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography  says  of  him 
(Vol.  1,  page  199),  "Colonel  Isaac  Allerton  of  Westmoreland  County, 
Virginia,  was  son  of  Isaac  Allerton,  one  of  the  principal  emigrants  in 
the  Mayflower,  He  was  born  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1630.  Gradu- 
ated at  Harvard  College  in  1650,  and  soon  came  to  Virginia  and  settled 
in  Northumberland  County  (then  including  Westmoreland  County.)" 
Colonel  Allerton  was  sworn  a  Justice  of  Northumberland  County,  22 
April,  1663;  was  a  member  of  the  "Committee  of  the  Association  of 
Northumberland,  Westmoreland  and  Stafford  Counties,"  1  November 
1667  (Northumberland  Records,  also  Henning  Vol.  2,  page  257).  In 
September,  1675,  as  Major  he  was  second  in  command  to  Colonel  John 
Washington  of  Virginia  forces  against  the  Indians,  and  November  5, 
1677,  was  second  in  "Committee  of  the  Peace  for  Westmoreland 
County  and  of  the  Quorum."  Member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses 
February  1676-7.     (Westmoreland  Records.) 

Virginia  Carolorum,  by  Neill,  page  347,  recites  the  fact  that  "in 
early  summer,  1675,  the  "Doegs,"  an  Indian  tribe  of  the  Potomac, 
stole  from  the  settlers  and  afterward  killed  some  of  them" — and  then 
says: — "A  joint  movement  of  Virginians  and  Mary  landers  was  ar- 
ranged to  go  against  them.  The  Virginians  were  under  command  of 
Colonel  John  Washington,  Colonel  George  Mason  and  Major  Isaac 
Allerton."  Pages  386-387  say:— "In  1679,  for  the  defense  of  the 
County  from  incursions  of  the  Savages  it  was  enacted  that  a  garrison- 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  33 

house  or  store-house  be  erected  at  the  head  of  the  four  principal  rivers 
and  Major  Isaac  AUerton,  grandson  of  Elder  William  Brewster  of 
Plymouth,  St.  Leger  Codd  and  Colonel  George  Mason  were  designated 
to  superintend  the  building  of  a  house  sixty  feet  long,  twenty-two  feet 
broad  and  a  magazine  ten  feet  square,  at  Neapsico,  near  Occognar,  on 
the  Potomac  River."  He  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Council  in 
1683.     (Salisbury  Extracts.) 

In  a  letter  dated  June  10,  1691,  Governor  Nicholson  reports  to  the 
English  Government  that  Richard  Lee,  Isaac  AUerton  and  John 
Armistead,  out  of  scruple  of  conscience,  refused  to  take  the  oath  and 
were  left  out  of  the  Council. 

Honorable  Isaac  AUerton,  of  Westmoreland  County,  Virginia, 
died  in  1702.  WUl  was  dated  25  October,  1702,  witnessed  by 
Humphrey  Morriss,  John  Gerrard,  Daniel  Ocanny.  Proved  30  De- 
cember, 1702.  He  describes  himself  as  sick  of  body,  and  after  a 
pious  prelude,  disposes  of  his  estate  as  foUows:— 

"To  church  of  Cople  Parish  £10  sterling,  to  daughter  Sarah  Lee 
and  grandson  AUerton  Newton,  two  tracts  of  land  in  Stafford  County, 
to   my   dear   daughter  Elizabeth  Starr,  also  heirs  who  live  in  New 
England,  600  acres  of  land,  part  of  a  dividend  of  2150  acres,  on  south 
side  of  Rappahanock  River,  to  her  the  said  Elizabeth  and  such  of  her 
children  as  she  shaU  dispose  of  the  same  to,  but  in  case  the  said  Eliz- 
abeth be  dead  before  the  date  of  this  my  Will,  I  wiU  and  devise  the 
same  600  acres  of  land  to  her  eldest  son  and  to  his  heirs  forever."    He 
also  gives  to  her  heirs  the  sum  of  2000  pounds  of  tobacco,  to  be  paid 
upon  demand,  and  5000  pounds  to  daughter  Sarah  Lee,  and  as  daughter 
Travers  has  had  a  sufficient  part  or  proportion  of  my  estate  given  her 
in  consideration  of  marriage,  I  do  therefore,  for  memorial  sake,  give 
to  her  three  daughters  Elizabeth,  Rebecca  and  Winifred  Travers,  the 
sum  of  1000  pounds  tobacco  apiece  when  17  years  of  age,  or  upon 
marriage,  to  grandson  AUerton  Newton  1000  pounds  tobacco  when  21. 
All  the  remaining  part   of   my  lands  and  tenements,  not  above  be- 
queathed, how  or  wheresoever  situate  and  being,  to  my  weU  beloved 


34  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

son  Willougbby  AUerton  and  to  his  heirs  forever.  He  also  bequeaths 
his  son  all  his  personal  estate,  goods  and  chattels,  real  and  personal 
of  what  kind,  sort  or  quality  soever  the  same  may  be,  and  appointed 
him  his  executor."  (New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Reg- 
ister, Vol.  44,  pages  292-5.) 
Children.     By  first  wife.     Born  in  New  Haven^  Conn. 

7  ^Elizabeth^,  born  September  27,  1653.     Married  first  December 

23,  1675,  Benjamin  Starr,  who  died  in  1678,  age  31,  leav- 
ing one  child,  Allerton  Starr,  born  January  6,  1677.  She 
married  second  July  22,  1679,  Simon  Eyres  or  Heyres,  a 
sea  captain,  by  whom  she  had  several  children,  among 
them  were  Simon  Eyres  and  Isaac  Eyres.  Simon  died 
at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  1695.  She  died  November  17, 
1740.     (See  N.  E.  H.  and  G.  Reg.,  Vol.  44,  pages  290-2.) 

8  ^IsAAC^,  born  June  11,  1655;  m . 

9  3 Sarah  3,  born  about  1660;  m.  Hancock  Lee,  son  of  Col.  Richard 

Lee,  of  Virginia,  as  his  second  wife;  his  first  wife  was 
Mary,  daughter  of  Col.  William  Kendall. 

By  second  wife.     Born  in  Virginia. 

10  *Daughter3,  born ;  m.  Mr.  Newton.  Had  son  Allerton  New- 

ton.    (Mentioned  in  will). 

11  ^Frances^,  born ;  m.  Capt.  Samuel  Travers.     Had  daughters 

Elizabeth,  Rebecca  and  Winifred.     (Mentioned  in  will). 

12  *5Willoughby3,  born ;  m.  Hannah  Keene,   widow   of  John 

Bushrod. 

Note. — The  births  of  Isaac  2  AUerton's  three  eldest  children  are  recorded  in 
the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society's  Collection,  third  series  Vol.  7,  pages  248-g. 
The  others  are  found  in  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register, 
Vol.  44,  pages  290-2.  Virginia  Genealogies,  by  H.  E.  Hayden,  page  300,  says:  — 
"Capt.  Samuel  Travers,  born  Circ  1660,  son  of  William  Travers,  married  about  1685, 
Frances,  daughter  of  Colonel  Isaac  Allerton,  of  Virginia,  the  son  of  Isaac  Allerton, 
merchant  taylor  of  London,  who  emigrated  to  Massachusetts  in  the  Mayflower." 

"Old  Churches,  Ministers  and  Families  of  Virginia,"  by  Bishop  Meade,  Vol. 
2,  pages  151-2  : — "Here  lies  the  body  of  John  Bushrod,  Gentleman,  son  of  Bishrod 
by  Apphira  his  wife.  He  was  born  in  Gloucester,  Virginia,  January  30,  1663.  He 
took  for  his  wife,  Hannah,  daughter  of  William  Keene  of  Northumberland  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  and  left  by  her  two  sons  and  four  daughters.  Died  6  February, 
1 719,  in  the  56th  year  of  his  age." 


FOURTH    GENERATION. 


8    2ISAAC3,  (ISAAC2,  ISAACl). 

Born  at  New  Haven,  June  11,  1655.  He  accompanied  his 
father  to  Virginia  when  a  child,  but  returned  to  New  Haven  about 
1683,  and  resided  there,  and  possibly  at  Norwich,  in  the  same  State, 
during  most  of  the  remainder  of  his  life,  following  his  son,  John*,  to 
Coventry,  Rhode  Island,  shortly  before  his  death,  the  exact  date  of 
which  is  not  known.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  also  a  dealer  in  the 
products  of  the  country,  a  quiet  business  man,  taking  but  little  part  in 
public  affairs,  but  it  is  said,  serving  with  credit  in  the  Indian  wars. 
(See  Appendix,  note  C.) 


Children.     Born  m  New  Have?i^  Conn. 

13  iJoHN*,  born  about  1685;  m.  Elizabeth- 

14  2JesseS  born  1686  or  1687. 


15  3IsAAC*,  born  about  1696.     Died  young. 

16  ^Thomas*,  born  (?). 


Note. — 4 Thomas  4  is  not  in  the  former  Edition  and  is  conjectural.  He  came 
to  Norwich  at  the  same  time  as  1  John  4  in  1711,  and  apparently  with  him.  Purchased 
a  farm  of  Rene  Grignon.  Had  his  cattle  mark  recorded  in  1712.  In  March  1714- 
15  he  conveyed  the  farm  back  to  Grignon,  and  no  other  record  has  been  found  of 
him.     He  was  probably  another  son  of  2  Isaac  3. 


36  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

12  6WILLOUGHBY3,  (Isaac^,  IsaaqI). 

Born  in  Virginia  and  married  Mary  Keene,  widow  of  John 
Bushrod  and  daughter  of  William  Keene.     Willoughby  died  1723-4. 

They  had  two 
Children. 

17  1  Elizabeth*,  born ;  m.  Quills  and  had  children  Sarah 

and  Mary. 

18  2lsAAC<,  born ;  m.  Anne,  daughter  of  Gawin  Corbins.     Had 

children  19  i  Gawin  ^    20  2  Isaac  ^  and  21  ^  Willoughby  % 
who  all  died  in  youth. 

Note.— All  male  descendants  died  before  1760  and  it  is  not  deemed  necessary 
to  go  into  their  history  in  detail.  A  reference  to  the  New  England  Historical  and 
Genealogical  Register,  Vol.  44,  pages  290  to  29s,  will  give  every  fact  possible  for 
this  volume  to  give. 


FIFTH    GENERATION. 


13   1  JOHNS  (Isaacs  IsaacS  IsaacI). 

Born  in  New  Haven,  Conn,,  about  1585.     Married  Eliza- 
beth  .  He  removed  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  about  1711  or  1712,  and  was 

one  of  the  first  Selectmen  in  1721.  From  there  he  removed  to  War- 
wick, Rhode  Island,  where  he  was  admitted  as  a  freeman.  May,  1739. 
On  August  3,  1741,  the  west  end  of  the  town,  where  he  lived  and  had 
his  farm,  was  set  off  as  Coventry,  and  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
that  town,  May,  1742.  (Rhode  Island  Vital  Record.)  His  wife, 
Elizabeth,  whose  maiden  name  is  unknown,  survived  him  many  years 
and  removed,  with  a  daughter  who  married  a  Mr.  Sweet,  to  the  State 
of  New  York.  He  died  in  Coventry  about  1750.  His  children  were 
born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  the  Town  Records  show  the  dates  of  their 
birth  to  be  as  follows  : 

Children. 

22  lEsTHER^,  born  July  11,  1713. 

23  2SarahS  born  October  14,  1715. 

24  3 Mary S    born   March    24,    1717-8;   m.    Nathaniel    Spencer,    of 

Warwick,   R.   I.,   October  20,  1740. 

25  *JohnS  born  August  23,  1720;  m.  widow  Rosanna  Cooper. 

26  sRichardS  born  March  2,  1722-3.     Died  in  infancy. 

27  eisAAcS  born  August  15,  1725;  m.  Lucy  Spaulding. 

28  ^Elizabeths  born  November  25,  1728.    Died  young. 

29  8 Annas  born  October  10,  1731;  m.  Thomas  Straight,  November 

13,  1755. 

30  ^Jonathans,  ijorn  September  18,  1735. 


38  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

14  2JESSES  (Isaacs,  IsaacS  Isaacs). 

Born  at  New  Haven,  in  1686  or  1687.  In  him  the  roving 
disposition  of  the  family,  which  had  been  dormant  for  two  generations, 
re-asserts  itself,  and  it  has  ever  been  a  prominent  characteristic  of  his 
descendants.  He  married  early  in  life  and  lived  in  various  parts  of 
Connecticut  and  Massachusetts;  one  account  states  that  he  died  in  the 
latter  State,  while  another  states  that  he  went  to  New  Jersey  with  his 
son  Zachariah  and  died  there  at  an  advanced  age.  He  undoubtedly 
had  a  comparatively  large  family,  but  of  his  daughters  absolutely 
nothing  is  known,  and  indeed  no  attempt  has  been  made  to  trace  the 
female  members  of  the  fourth  and  fifth  generations.  The  tradition 
that  several  of  his  sons  were  victims  of  the  Wyoming  massacre  is 
given  elsewhere  in  this  volume. 

Child. 
31   1  Zachariah 5,  born  about  1730  in  Massachusetts. 


'W'JWIF      w^ll§ 


Byrox   Allertox. 

(167.) 


SIXTH    GENERATION. 


25  ^JOHNS  (Johns  Isaac^  Isaac^,  IsaacI). 

Born  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  August  23,  1720.  Married  July 
17,  1754,  Rosanna  Cooper,  widow  of  Mensin  Cooper  and  whose  maiden 
name  was  Burlingame.  He  resided  at  Coventry,  Conn.,  where  he  was 
a  cooper  and  farmer.  He  injured  one  of  his  fingers  while  placing  a 
back-log  upon  an  old-fashioned  wood  fire,  from  which  blood  poison- 
ing resulted,  causing  his  death.  He  was  buried  in  the  family  grave 
yard  on  his  farm  in  Coventry,  R.  I. 

Children.     Born  at  Coventry.,  R.  I. 

32  1  Jerusha^,  born  July  21,  1755.     Died  unmarried  in  1798. 

33  2Sarah6,  born  June  8,  1757.     Died  unmarried  in  1837. 

34  ^FreeloveS  born  August  11,  1759;  m.  a  Mr.  Albro  of  Saratoga 

County,  New  York. 

35  *Roger6,  born  October  1,  1761;  m.  Mrs.  Elsie  Phillips. 

36  sJohnS  born  February  13,  1764-5;  m.  Molly  Barrett. 

37  ^BetsetS  born  July  3,  1766.     She  went  with  her  sister  Freelove 

to    Saratoga   County,    New  York,    and     married    there 
Samuel  Campbell,  by  whom  she  had  several  children. 

38  ^RussellS  born  November  27, 1768.    Settled  in  Saratoga  County, 

New  York.     Died  unmarried  in  1800. 

39  sRosE  AnneS  born  March  11,  1771.     Died    unmarried    in   Co- 

ventry, Rhode  Island,  in  1836. 


40  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

27  ^ISAACS  (JoiixS  Isaacs  Isaac^,  IsaaqI). 

Born  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  August  15,  1725.  Married  about 
1745,  Lucy  Spaulding.  (See  Appendix  note  E.)  But  little  is  known 
with  certainty  of  his  early  years.  He  lived  at  Canterbury  and  Plain- 
field,  and  followed  the  business  of  builder  as  well  as  being  a  farmer. 
In  appearance  he  was  a  tall  and  robust  man,  and  had  considerable 
local  fame  as  an  athlete,  until  he  sustained  an  injury  to  one  of  his  legs 
while  building  a  bridge,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  never  entirely 
recovered.  Prior  to  the  War  of  the  Revolution  he  was  quite  Avcalthy, 
but  having  shown  his  devotion  to  the  Continental  cause  by  taking  the 
paper  money  of  the  provinces  to  a  large  amount  in  exchange  for  pro- 
duce and  supplies  furnished  to  the  troops,  he  eventually  lost  the 
greater  part  of  his  property.  lie  removed  to  Amenia,  in  Dutchess 
County,  New  York,  in  1792,  and  died  there  December  26,  1807. 

During  his  lifetime  he  possessed  several  mementoes  of  the  May- 
flower and  of  the  earlier  years  of  the  Plymouth  Colony,  among  others 
a  broad-axe  which  had  been  used  to  hew  the  timbers  of  the  first  house 
built  by  the  Colonists,  and  a  fuzee-gun  taken  in  battle  from  an  Indian 
warrior,  but  unfortunately  since  his  death  these  relics  have  been  lost. 
His  wife  survived  him  and  died  in  1813,  aged  86  years,  and  they  are 
both  buried  in  the  Cemetery  in  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

Children.     Born  in  Plainfield,  Conn. 

40  'Jonathan*^,  born  September  15,  1746;  ra.  Bathsheba  Mead. 

Bor7i  in  Canterbury.,  Conn. 

41  ^David^,  born  February  14,  1750;  m.  Janet  Montgomery. 

42  3Reube^"^,  born  December  25,  1753;  m.  Lois  Atherton. 

43  *Anxa6,  born  April  20,  1757;  m.  in  1777  David  Ransom  and  in 

1812  went  to  Herkimer  County,  New  York,  where  she 
died  April  26,  1853. 

Borji  in  Windham.,  Conti. 

44  ^Alice^,  born  May  23,  1765;  m.,  late  in  life,  David  Runnels,  and 

died  in  1852  without  issue. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  41 

Born  in  Plainjield,  Conn. 
45  «Sarah6,  born  February  12,  1770;  m.  George  James,  a  farmer  of 
Rhode  Island,  by  whom  she  had  several  children,  and 
with  whom  she  removed  to  Dutchess  County,  New  York, 
where  she  died  in  August,  1858,  the  last  descendant  of 
the  Allertons  of  the  sixth  generation.  Many  details  for 
this  genealogy  were  obtained  from  her. 


Note  -George  James  had  a  daughter,  Polly  James,  born  January  i6,  i794, 
who  married  Moses  Castle,  February  lo,  1813.  Their  son,  Theodore  H.  La.tle, 
born  August  9,  1826.  is  father  of  E.  M.  Castle,  who  lives  (1899)  at  Dresden,  Yates 
County,  New  York. 


31   ^ZACHARIAHS  (JksseS  Isaac%  Isaac^,  IsaacO- 

Born  in  Massachusetts  about  1730.  Removed  to  New 
Jersey  and  was  twice  married;  by  his  first  wife  he  had  several  daughters 
of  whom  nothing  is  known.  By  his  second  wife  he  had  six  sons  and 
one  daughter.  It  is  said  that  he  went  to  Northumberland  County, 
Pennsylvania,  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  in  which  he 
served  in  the  Continental  Army,  and  died  there  about  1800. 

Children.     By  second  wife.     Born  in  New  Jersey. 

46  iAmos«,  born  April  6,  1760;  m.  Chloe  Stiles. 

47  2John'^,  born  March  10,  1763. 

48  ^Stephens  born  September  21,  1767;  m.  Catherine  Lutz. 

49  ^Samuels  born  about  1768.    He  left  home  early  in  life  and  noth- 

ing has  been  heard  of  him  since. 

50  sJobS  born  about  1770;  m.  Grace . 

51  6JesseS  born  about  1773.     Died  unmarried,  aged  18. 

52  ■^Hannah^,  born  about  1775. 


SEVENTH    GENERATION. 


35  <ROGER«,  (JoHN^,  Johns  Isaac^,  Isaac^  Isaacs). 

Born  October  1,  1761,  in  Coventry,  Rhode  Island.  He 
was  well  educated  and  taught  school  for  several  years  in  early  man- 
hood. In  1788  he  married  Mrs.  Elsie  Phillips,  a  widow,  and  daughter 
of  Lieutenant-Governor  West,  of  Scituate,  R.  I.  Prior  to  his  wife's 
death,  in  1828,  he  was  a  farmer  at  Scituate  and  afterwards  he  kept  a 
tavern  at  Providence  for  many  years.  He  died  in  1849  and  was  buried 
beside  his  parents,  at  Coventry,  R.  I. 

Children.     Born  in  Scituate.,  Rhode  Island. 

53  iRussell'^,  born  1789.     Died  November  16,  1815.     Unmarried. 

Lawyer  by  profession. 

54  ^Goodwins  born  1792.     Died  May  12,  1819.    Unmarried.    Phys- 

ician and  Surgeon. 

55  3JohnS  born  1795.     Died  in  1830.     Unmarried. 

56  ^Jerusha'^,  born  1797.     Died  in  1815.     Unmarried. 

36  5JOHN6,  (JoHN^,  Johns  Isaao^  IsaacS  IsaacI). 

Born  in  Coventry,  Rhode  Island,  February  13,  1764-5. 
He  resided  in  youth  for  several  years  with  his  uncle  Isaac ^  in  Plain- 
field,  Conn.,  and  when  about  16  years  old  moved  to  Brooklyn,  Conn., 
where  he  married  Molly  Barrett,  in  1810.  He  was  an  industrious  and 
successful  farmer.  He  died  in  Brooklyn,  January  2,  1839.  His  wife 
died  July  3,  1838. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  43 

Children.     Born  at  Brooklyn^  Cojin, 

57  iJoHN  Russell,^,  born  April  12,  1811;  m.  Adaline  Spaulding. 

58  ^William"^,  born  May  9,  1816.    Died  April  16,  1834.    Uumarried. 

59  ^Geoege^,  born  June  13,  1818;  m.  Adaline  Spaulding,  widow  of 

his  brother  John. 

60  ''Mary  Ann^  born  December  2,  1819.    Died  November  26,  1836. 

Unmarried. 

40   1  JONATHANS  (IsaacS  John^  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  IsaacI). 

Born  at  Plainfield,  Connecticut,  September  15,  1746. 
Married  September  17,  1772,  in  Sharon,  Conn,,  Bathsheba  daughter  of 
Joshua  Mead.  His  early  life  was  passed  on  his  father's  farm,  where 
he  obtained  a  practical  knowledge  of  farming  as  there  practiced,  and 
also  of  his  fathei-'s  trade  of  builder  and  house  joiner.  He  also  taught 
school  in  winter,  and  for  several  years  he  was  so  engaged  at  Amenia, 
in  Dutchess  County,  New  York.  He  was  well  educated  for  those  days 
and  an  excellent  penman,  being  much  in  demand  to  draw  contracts, 
deeds,  and  similar  papers.  He  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution 
until  compelled  by  sickness  to  return  home,  and  evidently  shared  his 
father's  confidence  in  the  Continental  currency,  for  we  are  told  that 
he  sold  his  interest  and  that  of  his  mother-in-law,  in  the  homestead 
farm,  for  $2,000,  and  took  his  pay  in  that  money,  by  which  he  lost 
nearly  his  entire  property.  In  1783,  in  company  with  other  of  his 
fellow-townsmen,  he  purchased  a  tract  of  land,  known  as  the  Van 
Schaick  patent  in  the  town  of  Cairo,  Greene  County,  New  York,  and 
removed  there  with  his  family.  Here  he  taught  school  for  several 
winters,  and  after  filling  a  prominent  place  in  the  affairs  of  the  little 
settlement  for  many  years,  he  died  x4ugust  10,  1806.  His  wife  sur- 
vived him  for  a  long  time  and  died  July  4,  1838,  aged  84  years,  and 
was  buried  beside  him  in  the  family  grave  yard  on  the  farm. 


44  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Children.     Born  in  Amenia,  New  York. 

61  iJosHUA^  born  November  7,  1776;  in.  Polly  Bassett. 

62  2IsAAC^  born  January  15,  1779;  m.  Charlotte  Townsend. 

63  3JoHN^  born  July  24,  1781;  ra.  Polly  Andress. 

64  *SARAH^  born  March  22,  1783.     Died  at  Cairo,  Greene  County, 

New  York,  March  11,  1794. 

Born  at  Cairo,  New  York. 

65  sAnna',  born  December  13,  1785;  m.  Reuben  German,  February 

10,  1816.  She  was  a  woman  of  great  natural  ability  and 
good  memory,  and  furnished  many  dates  and  other 
material    for   this   genealogy. 

66  6Reuben^  born  July  25,  1788;  m.  Maria  Miller. 

67  a.ucY%  born  May  13,  1791;  m.,  March  15,  1815,  Benjamin  Bul- 

lock, of  Greene  County.     Died  at  Cairo,  March  22,  1865. 

41   2DAVID6,  (Isaacs  John*,  IsaacS  Isaac^,  IsaacI)- 

Born    at   Canterbury,    Connecticut,  February    14,    1750. 

Married  in  Canterbury,  Conn.,  about  1775,  to  Janet  Montgomery,  of 

Rhode  Island,  a  relative  of  General  Richard  Montgomery.   He  resided 

until  manhood  in  Canterbury,  Conn.     About  the  year  1785  he  removed 

to  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  where  he  resided  about  ten 

years,  and  then  moved  again  to  Madison  County,  residing  successively 

at  Sangerfield,  Smithville  and  Hamilton,  at  which  latter  place  he  died, 

October  31,  1828.     His  wife,  by  whom  he  had  a  large  family,  died, 

September 'l7,  1830,  aged  71  years.     He  was  a  farmer  all  his  life,  a 

man  of  strong  religious  temperament  and  of  a  most  kindly  disposition. 

Children.     Born  at  Canterbury,  Conn. 
68   iArchibald  MontgomeeyS  born   December   3,    1780;   m.    first 
Rebecca  Chamberlain,  second  Bathsheba  Parks. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  45 

69  2POLLYS  born  February  U,  1Y83;  m.  in  1802,  Philander  Wilcox, 

of  Madison  County. 

70  3lsAAC^  born  February  14,  1785;  m.  Sylvia  Winchell. 

71  <ANSON^  born  May  14, 1787.     Died  unmarried,  aged  18  years. 

72  5Nanct%  born  October  10,  1790;  m.,  February  15,  1815,  Calvin 

Owen,   and   after   his   death  married  a  Mr.   Martin,   of 
Greene  County,  New  York.     She  died  in  1842. 

73  6SALLY^  born  October  15,  1792;   m.,  December  8,  1810,  Isaac 

Dunham,  of  Tioga  County,  New  York. 

74  Uames^  born  May  2,  1795;  m.,  first,  Jane  Scott;  second,  Mrs. 

Harriet  A.  Dawson. 

42  3REUBEN6,  (Isaacs  Johns  Isaacs  Isaacs,  IsAAC^). 

Born  at  Canterbury,  Conn.,  December  25,  1753.  He  was 
unusually  well  educated  for  those  times  and  studied  medicine  with 
Dr.  Fitch  of  New  Haven,  and  surgery  with  Dr.  Spaulding  of  Nor- 
wich, a  relative  of  his  mother,  and  became  eminent  as  a  physician  and 
surgeon.  The  History  of  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  by  J.  H. 
Smith,  Town  of  Amenia,  page  345,  says:  "Among  the  early  physicians 
was  Dr.  Reuben  Allerton,  son  of  Isaac  Allerton,  of  Windham  County, 
Conn.,  who  purchased  the  farm  of  Abner  Gillet,  in  1787.  He  preceded 
his  father  a  few  years,  and  began  the  practice  of  medicine  about  1778. 
In  1785  he  removed  to  the  Oblong,  where  for  a  time  he  lived  in  the  John 
Reed  house.  Afterward,  and  until  his  death  he  lived  near  the  Pres- 
byterian church,  now  in  South  Amenia. 

It  was  probably  immediately  after  the  completion  of  his  medical 
studies  that  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Colonies  as  Surgeon  in  the 
Regiment  of  Colonel  Hopkins  in  1777.  Page  354  says:  "  Roswell 
Hopkins  was  Colonel  of  the  Sixth  Regiment  and  participated  in  the 
Battle  of  Saratoga.  Dr.  Reuben  Allerton  was  Surgeon  of  the  Regi- 
ment in  that  campaign."  A  portion  of  his  instruments  are  still  in  the 
possession  of  his  descendants. 


46  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

He  was  married  in  Sharon,  Conn.,  on  September  1,  17*78  to  Lois 
■Atherton  by  his  Colonel,  who  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  Amenia, 
New  York.  (See  Births,  Marriages  and  Deaths  of  Sharon,  Conn.,  by 
Lawrence  Van  Alstyne).  Lois  Atherton  was  born  1757,  in  Newton, 
New  Jersey,  and  was  a  daughter  of  John  and  Lucy  (Sawyer)  Atherton 
of  Sharon,  Conn.  John  Atherton  was  one  of  the  five  sons  of  James 
Atherton  who  came  to  Sharon,  as  an  early  settler,  from  Coventry, 
Conn. 

Children.     Born  in  Amenia,  New  York. 

75  1  Cornelius ' ,  born  July  23,  1779;  ra.  Clarissa  Heusted. 

76  2 Polly'',  born  1781.     Died  in  childhood. 

77  ^Lucy'',  born  1783;  m.  Thomas  Barlow,  and  died  at  Amenia  in 

1860.  She  was  famous  as  a  beauty  while  young,  and 
as  a  kind  and  worthy  matron  and  mother  in  her  later 
years. 

78  ^Samuel  Waters'',  born  December  5, 1785;  m.  Hannah  Hurd. 

79  5 Amaryllis'',  born  August  9,  1788.     Died  unmarried  at  Amenia, 

April  25,  1876. 

80  ^Mira''.  born  March  20,  1791;  m.  Taber  Belden,  of  Amenia,  and 

died  March,  1859. 

81  ''Milton  Barlow'',  born  August  21,  1799;  m.  January  20,  1825, 

Eliza  Belden. 

46  ^AMOS^,  (ZachariahS,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  in  New  Jersey,  April  6,  1760.  He  was  by  occupa- 
tion a  tanner  and  manufacturer  of  boots  and  shoes,  and  also  at  times  a 
farmer,  and  of  an  unstable  nature,  never  residing  long  in  one  locality. 
He  married  early  in  life,  Chloe  Stiles,  and  had  a  large  family,  dying 
at  Lake  Mills,  Wisconsin,  September  15,  1846. 
Children. 

82  ^  Elizabeth '' ,  born  about  1783. 

83  2 Jesse'',  born  about  1785.     Died  aged  18. 


THE   ALLERTON    FAMILY.  47 

84  ^Han^tah'',  bom  about  1788.     Died  young. 

85  *David'',   born   in    1790;    m.    in   Pennsylvania,  Mary    Allerton, 

(cousin)  daughter  of  Job  Allerton, 

86  ^Lavinia'',  born  about  1793.     She  is  said  to  have  been  married 

twice,  first  to  a  Mr.  Patterson,  and  second  to  a  Mr.  Nash. 

87  ^John'',  born  September  21,  1795;  m.  Mary  Husong, 

88  ''Amos'',  born  near  Munson,  Miflin  County,  Pennsylvania,  June 

3,  1798.  He  married  Sophronia  Laughlin,  in  1821,  but 
had  no  children.  He  was  a  farmer  and  of  a  roving  dis- 
position, but  finally  settled  at  Deerfield,  Portage  County, 
Ohio,  and  died  there  June  3,  1879.  He  was  a  man  of 
great  ability,  and  in  his  later  years  was  famous,  locally, 
as  a  preacher  in  the  Disciples  Church. 

89  8 Daughter'',  who  died  in  childhood. 

47  2 JOHNS  (ZachariahS,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac i). 

Born  in  New  Jersey,  March  10,  1763.  He  was  a  farmer 
and  a  successful  business  man.  He  was  married  four  times.  By  his 
first  wife  he  had  two  children,  and  by  his  second  wife,  Rachel  Crage, 
he  had  six  children.  He  resided  in  Crawford  County,  Pennsylvania, 
until  after  the  birth  of  his  children,  when  he  removed  to  Ohio  and 
resided  at  Waynesburgh  and  Smithtown.  He  died  at  the  latter  place 
April  8,  1851. 

Children.     By  first  wife.     Born  in  Crawford  County,  Penn. 

90  iJacob'',  born,  May  30,  1790.     He  was  a  lumberman  by  occupa- 

tion, and  died,  unmarried,  February  9,  1827. 

91  sPoLLY'',  born  about  1792.     Married  John  Lupper,  and  died  Feb- 

ruary 19,  1836. 
By  second  wife. 

92  3JAMES'',  born  August  16,  1796.     Married,  April  2,  1816,  Mary 

Silvers. 

93  *Rhoda'',  born  May  30,  1800.     She  died  young  and  unmarried. 


48  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

94  5p^MELA^  born  April  25,  1801.     She  married  a  tanner  named 

Teel,  and  died  September  20,  1838. 

95  6RACHEL^  twin  sister  of  Pamela.     She  married  a  farmer  named 

Reeves,  and  died  September  5,  1835. 

96  ^Abigail^,  born  July  19,  1803.    She  died  young  and  unmarried. 

97  8JoHN^  born  January  31,  1807;  m.  Martha  Huf man. 

48  ^STEPHENS  (ZachariahS  JesseS  Isaac^,  IsaacS  Isaacs). 

Born  in  New  Jersey,  September  21,  1767.    Married  about 
1795,  Catherine  Lutz.     He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  resided 
in  Northumberland  County,  Pennsylvania,  and  afterwards  at  Coits- 
ville,  Mahoning  County,  Ohio,  where  he  died  November  15,  1832. 
Children.     Born  at  Shamokin,  Penn. 

98  ilKA^  born  September  22,  1797.     Unmarried. 

99  2J0HN  LuTZ^  born  November  5,  1799;  m.  Hetta  Mackey. 

50  5J0BS  (ZachariahS  Jesses  IsaacS  IsaacS  Isaac^). 

Bom  in  New  Jersey,  about  1770.  He  was  a  machinist 
by  occupation,  and  resided  in  New  Jersey  and  at  Baltimore  and  Har- 
per's Ferry,  and  finally  settled  in  Stark  County,  Ohio.     He  married 

while  young,  Grace ,  and  had  a  large  family,  of  whom  only  four 

lived.     He  died  in  Stark  County,  about  1840. 

Children. 

100  iMARYSborn  1794,  in  New  Jersey;  m.  December  15,  1812,  her 

cousin,  David  Allerton  (AmosS  ZachariahS  Jesse'i). 

101  ^JamesS  born  November  11,  1V98,  in  New  Jersey;  m.,  in  1823  or 

1824,  Eleanor  Kellogg. 

102  3SAMUELS  born  January  3,  1801,  near  Baltimore,  Maryland;  m. 

Elizabeth  Pool. 
102i^THOMAsS  born  1804,  near  Harper's  Ferry,  Virginia.   Died  young 
and  unmarried. 


r 


Amaryllis  (Allerton)  Shermax. 
(163.) 


EIGHTH    GENERATION. 


57  iJOHN   RUSSELL^   (JohnS  JohnS  John*,  IsaacS  IsaacS 

ISAAC^). 

Born  at  Brooklyn,  Connecticut,  April  12,  1811.  He 
married,  September  25, 1842,  Adaline  Spaulding,  widow  of  his  brother 
George,  and  died  June  23,  1882.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a  man  of  in- 
fluence in  local  affairs,  having  filled  various  town  oflfices  and  represented 
his  native  town,  in  which  he  resided  all  his  life,  in  the  Legislature. 
He  furnished  many  details  of  his  own  branch  of  the  family  for  this 
genealogy. 

Children.     Born  at  Brooklyn,  Conn. 

103  1  Frances  Adaline »,  born  August  6,  1843;  m.  in  1870,  Daniel 

W.  Purington,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

104  2Abby8,  born  October  12,  1845.     Died  September  6,  1860. 

105  3  Jane^,  born  October  12,  1845.    Died  January  7,  1866,  unmarried. 

106  *Henry^  born  January  29,  1848;  m.,  first,  Maria  Neff;  second, 

Mrs.  Abby  M.  Porter. 

107  5  JoHX%  born  January  1,  1854.     Died  July  5,  1854. 

108  ^Charles^,  born  June  15,  1855.     Died  December  9,  1862. 

59  2GE0RGE',  (JoHN«,  JohnS  John*,  IsaacS  Isaac^,  IsaacI). 

Born  at  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  June  13,  1818.  Married,  March 
13,  1839,  Adaline  Spaulding.  Died  April  6,  1842.  He  was  a  farmer  by 
occupation,  and   resided    at   Brooklyn,  Conn.     After  his   death,  his 


50  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

widow  married,  as  her   second  husband,   his  brother,   John  Russell 
Allerton. 

Child. 

109  iMary  Ann8,  born  February  4,  1840.     Died  July  14,  1841. 

61     1  JOSHUA',  (J0NATHANS,IsAACS,  JoHN^jISAAC^jIsAAC^jIsAAC^). 

Born  at  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  Novem- 
ber 7,  1776.  He  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Greene  County  in 
childhood,  where  he  resided  during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was 
a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  being  by  nature  both  industrious  and 
intelligent,  he  was  unusually  successful  and  acquired  considerable 
property  during  a  long  and  upright  life.  He  married,  April  29,  1804, 
Polly  Bassett,  then  24  years  old,  and  like  himself  a  descendant  of  the 
Pilgrims,  by  whom  he  had  a  large  family.  He  died  at  Cairo,  in 
Greene  County,  September  14,  1862. 

Childreji.     Bor?i  in  Cairo,  Greene  County,  New  York. 

110  iMead%  born    February  2,    1805.     He  worked    on  his   father's 

farm  until  manhood,  attending  school  when  the  farm 
work  allowed  him  to  do  so,  and  he  himself  taught  in  the 
winter  of  1826.  In  1827  and  1828  he  conducted  a  country 
store  at  Gay  Head,  in  Greene  County;  and  from  1830  to 
1844  he  carried  on  the  same  business  at  Port  Gibson, 
Ontario  County,  New  York,  where  he  was  married, 
October  19,  1834,  to  Lavinia  Blackmar,  of  Freehold, 
Greene  County.  In  1860  he  removed  to  Newark,  in 
Wayne  County,  New  York,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death,  February  19,  1884.  He  was  an  enterprising  and 
successful  business  man,  having  acquired  a  competency 
and  retired  from  active  business  before  his  removal  to 
Newark,  and  was  highly  esteemed  as  a  public  spirited 
and    influential   citizen   wherever   he   resided.     He   was 


THE   ALLERTON    FAMILY.  51 

Supervisor  of  the  Town  of  Manchester,  in  Ontario  County, 
in  1846,  1847  and  1848.     He  had  no  children. 

He  was  always  deeply  interested  in  the  old  and  hon- 
orable family,  of  which  he  was  himself  a  worthy  member, 
and  after  his  retirement  from  business  he  devoted  part  of 
his  time  to  the  work  of  compiling  a  genealogy,  and  left  a 
large  and  interesting  manuscript,  from  which  a  great  por- 
tion of  the  facts  used  in  preparing  the  genealogical  part 
of  this  work  was  obtained. 

111  2Sarah8,  born   September    11,    1806;    m.,    September    11,    1832, 

James  Cook.     Died  in  Greene  County,  New  York,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1873. 

112  3John8,    born   December    30,    1807.     Committed  suicide,  while 

insane  from  the  effects  of  disease.  May  25,  1851.     Un- 
married. 

113  <LucY  Ann8,  born   September   21,    1809.     Died  May  16,   1848. 

Unmarried. 

114  sRANsoM^jborn  February  21,  1811;  m.  Lavina  R.  Colson. 

115  ^MariahS,  born  August  12,  1813;  m.,  May  20,   1845,    Cyrastus 

Betts,  a  farmer  of  Greene  County,  New  York. 

116  "^William  C.^,  born  June  11, 1815;  m.,  first,  Esther  Welsh;  second, 

Jane  A.  Green. 

117  sJames^,  born  March  29,  1817;  m.  Eliza  Ann  Huntington. 

118  9Adaline8,  born  September  28,  1821;  m.,   first,   May  20,  1845, 

Lewis  Rundell,  who  died  in  1859;  second,  October  28, 
1869,  Lemuel  J.  Swift. 

62  ^ISAAC,  (Jonathan^,  Isaac^,  John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Amenia,  January  15,  1779.     He  resided  with  his 

grand  parents,  after  his  father's  removal  to  Greene  County,  in  1783, 

until  he  was  15  years  old,  when  he  followed  him  there  and  assisted 

him  upon  his  farm  until  his  marriage,  March  6,  1806,  to  Charlotte 


52  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Townsend.  After  his  marriage  he  became  a  wagon  maker,  and  after 
some  years  a  miller,  but  being  unsuccessful  in  this  latter  venture,  he 
removed  in  1820,  to  Benton,  in  Yates  County,  and  became  a  farmer 
first  in  that  vicinity  and  afterward  at  Prattsburgh,  in  Steuben  County. 
He  died  in  Savona  in  that  County,  April  2,  1863. 

Children.     Born  in  Greene  County,  New  York. 

119  iLucY  Ann^,  born  February  23,  180Y;  m.  John  Koon,  a  farmer 

and  mechanic  of  Prattsburgh. 

120  ^Eliza  Anx^,  born  February  14,  1808;  m.  Ebenezer  L.  Holcomb, 

of  Ontario  County,  New  York. 

Born  in  Albany  County. 

121  ^Carolines,   born   September   20,    1810;    ra.    Ahira   Chapin,   a 

farmer,  and  removed  to  Wisconsin. 

Born  in  Greene  County. 

122  ^TowNSEND^,  born  July  23,  1812;  m.,    February   1,  1838,   Ann 

Chapin. 

123  ^Leandek^,  born  June  1,  1814;  m.  Jane  Bryan. 

124  ^Delanson^  born  May  7,  1816;  m.  Mary  Jane  Dudley. 

125  ''Mary  Jane^,  born  May  22, 1818;  ra.,  November  17,  1841,  Joshua 

Bryan,  a  farmer,  of  Bath,  New  York. 

Born  in  Benton,  Yates  Coimty,  New  York. 

126  sjoHN  T.8,  born  November  1,  1820;  m.  Caroline  Rapelyeu. 

63  3 JOHN'',  (Jonathan^,  IsaacS  John*,  IsaacS  Isaac^,  Isaacs). 
Born  in  Amenia,  New  York,  July  24,  1781.  He  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Greene  County  when  a  child,  and  in  1808  he 
married  Polly  Andress,  and  removed  to  Delaware  County.  He  was  a 
farmer,  but  was  unsuccessful,  and  finally  became  insane  and  committed 
suicide  in  1819. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  53 

Children.     Born  in  Delaware  County,  New  York. 

127  iSallt»,  born  February  19,    1809;    m.    Barnabas  A.  Nichols,  a 

farmer  of  Monroe  County,  New  York. 

128  2Angelixa8,  born  March  16, 1811;  m.  first,  Hiram  G.  Hemingway, 

second,  Calvin  Sweet,  of  Michigan. 

129  ^Carolines  born  March  21,  1813.     Died  in  1834.     Unmarried. 

130  *Almyra«,  born  May  2,  1815;  m.  Peter  M.  Hess,  and  moved  to 

Michigan. 

131  sjoHN^,  born  February,  1818.     Died  August,  1824. 

66  6REUBEN'',    (Jonathans    IsaacS    John*,    IsaacS    IsaacS 
Isaac  1). 

Born  in  Cairo,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  July  25, 
1788.  Resided  with  his  parents  on  the  homestead  farm,  and  after  his 
father's  death  he  carried  on  the  business  for  his  mother  and  sisters 
until  his  marriage,  May  29,  1814,  to  Maria  Miller,  of  Cairo.  In  the 
fall  of  the  same  year  he  served  a  short  period  with  the  militia  during 
the  war  with  Great  Britain,  but  saw  no  actual  hostilities.  He  then 
purchased  a  farm  at  Cairo,  and  cultivated  it  until  1825,  when  he  be- 
came a  minister  of  the  Christian  Church  and  took  charge  of  a  church 
at  Somerstown,  in  Westchester  County.  Afterward  he  removed  to 
South-East,  in  Putnam  County,  and  continued  to  preach  there  until 
his  death,  January  28,  1832.  He  was  possessed  of  little  education  but 
great  natural  ability,  and  was  a  man  universally  liked  and  esteemed. 

Children.     Born  at  Cairo,  Greene  County.,  New  York. 

132  iEmily^,  born  October  5,  1815;  m.  Levi  Gage,  a  farmer,  of  Put- 

nam County,  New  York. 

133  ^George  C.^,  born  December  2,  1817;  m.  Hannah  Hungerford. 

134  3Ezra8,  born  January  24,  1820;  m.  Marcia  L.  Hand.  Farmer,  and 

lived  in  Greene  County  all  his  life.     He  died  at  Durham, 
September  23,  1859.     No  children, 


54  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

135  4Feancis8,   born    May    9,    1822.     Went   to    California  in    1849. 

Died  there  in  1851,  unmarried. 

136  sSerenaS,  born  June  7,  1824.     Died  November  19,  1827. 

137  ^Maby  Ann^,  born  in  Putnam  County,  New  York,  March    11, 

1827;   m.,   in    1860,   John   Norton,   of   Norton   Hill,   in 
Greene  County,  New  York. 

138  ''Emma  E.^,   born   in    Putnam    County,    February   11,   1830.     Is 

unmarried  and  resides  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York. 

68   'ARCHIBALD    MONTGOMERY\   (Davids,   IsaacS   JohnS 

IsAAC^,   IsAAc^,   Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Canterbury,  Conn.,  December  3,  1780.  Removed 
with  his  parents  to  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  and  there  married, 
December  3,  1803,  Rebecca  Chamberlain.  After  his  marriage  he 
removed  to  Bloomingdale,  New  York  City,  and  for  many  years  con- 
ducted a  drove  yard  or  cattle  market,  known  as  the  Upper  Bull's 
Head.  He  was  of  an  energetic  disposition  and  a  good  talker,  with  an 
apparently  inexhaustible  fund  of  anecdotes.  His  first  wife  died  Oct- 
ober 20,  1832,  and  he  married,  September  28,  1833,  Bathsheba  Parks, 
and  removed  soon  afterward  to  Broome  County,  where  he  became  a 
farmer,  and  died  at  Upper  Lisle,  in  that  County,  April  11,  1863.  His 
second  wife,  by  whom  he  had  no  children,  died  at  the  same  place, 
August  29,  1863. 
Children. 

139  ^LucY  Brigham^,  born  November  20,  1804;  m.  Gervase  Evans,  a 

silversmith,  of  New  York  City. 

140  ^Geokge  Washington^,  born  December  25,  1806;  m.  Margaret 

R.  Dobbins. 

141  ^Anson  Montgomery^,  born  May  30,  1809;  m.,  first,  Tamar  H. 

Lockwood,  second,  Ann  M.  Austin. 

142  *  William  Chamberlain^,  born  June  3,  1811.     Died,  unmarried, 

August  16,  1831. 

143  ^Alices,  born  July  18,  1813.     Died  July  12,  1825, 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILV.  55 

144  6JEANNETTE  MONTGOMERY^,  bom  April  7,  1816;  m.  Rufus  King 

Amory,  of  Binghamton,  New  York. 

145  ''DavidS,  born  July  21,  1818;  m.  Rachel  Ward  Hurd, 

146  sArchi^ald  Montgomery**,  born  February  14,  1821 ;  m.  Charlotte 

A.  Robson. 

147  9CHARLES  Henrys,  ^om  August   6,    1824;   m.,    October,    1865, 

Augusta  Gorham.  He  was  much  of  the  time  associated 
with  his  brothers  in  business,  and  like  them  he  moved  to 
Westchester  County,  and  died  at  Tuckahoe,  September 
9,  1871.     (No  children.) 

70  ^ISAAC,  (Davids  Isaac^  John*,  IsaacS  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Canterbury,  Conn.,  February  14,  1785.   He  accom- 
panied his  parents  in  childhood,  first  to  Dutchess  County,  and  afterward 
to  Madison  County.    He  decided  at  the  age  of  14  to  become  a  minister 
of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  it  is  said  that  before  arriving  at  manhood 
he  had  charge  of  a  congregation  of  Indian  converts  at  Sangerfield. 
From  1805  to  1807  he  preached  at  Hillsdale,  New  York,  and  in  the 
latter  year  went  to  North-East,  in  Dutchess  County.    He  was  married, 
March    21,  1809,  to  Sylvia  Winchell,    daughter   of   Colonel   Martin 
Winchell,  of  North-East.     In  the  war  of  1812,  he  acted  as  Chaplain 
in  a  militia  regiment,  and  in  1815  assumed  the  charge  of  the  Baptist 
Church  at  Sherburne,  in  Chenango  County,  New  York,  and  in  1818, 
he  went  to  Norwich,  in  the  same  County.     From  1820  to  1840,  he 
resided  at  New  York  City  and  in  Putnam  and  Ulster  Counties,  and 
during  this   period  he  published   several  books   on  religious   topics. 
From  1840  to  1849,  he  resided  in  the  Town  of  Deer  Park,  in  Orange 
County,  and  in  the  latter  year  he  returned  to  Chenango  County,  and 
resided  there  and  in  the  adjoining  County  of  Broome,  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  at  Port  Crane,  in  Broome  County,  February  14,  1875. 
He  was  thrice  married,  but  had  no  children  by  his  second  or  third 


wives. 


56  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Children. 

148  ^Clarissa^,  born  September  22,  1810,  at  North-East,  Dutchess 

County,  New  York.  Died  unmarried,  at  New  York  City, 
March  7,  1829. 

149  2Saeah  Axn^  born  March  27,  1812,  at  North-East;  m.,  February 

15,  1832,  Hamilton  Eggleston.  Died  May  6,  1838.  Had 
four  children,  three  of  whom  died  in  infancy  and  the 
fourth  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg. 

150  ^Horace  W.s,  born  April  15,  1814,  at  North-East;  m.  Ann  Eliza 

Otter. 

151  *Mart  Jane^,  born  September  14,  1816,  at  Sherburne,  Chenango 

County,  New  York;  m.,  April  5,  1835,  Nicholas  J. 
Eggleston,  of  North-East.     Resides  at  Chicago,  111. 

152  ^Frances^,  born  July  17,  1818,  at  Norwich,  New  York;  m.,  first, 

Clark  Durland,  of  Deer  Park,  Orange  County;  second, 
April  15,  1852,  Jacob  Ludwick,  of  Chenango  County. 

153  6 James  M. 8,  born  August  18,  1822;  m.,  first,  Amelia  S.  Adams; 

second,  Mary  E.  Goble;  third,  Jennie  E.  Knight. 

154  ''John  Belding^,  born  1824,  at  Carmel,  Putnam  County,  New 

York.     Died  unmarried,  August  25,  1843. 

155  ^IsAAC^,  born  September  5,  1828,  in  New  York  City;  m.   Eliza 

McDaniel. 


74  ajAMES'',  (David^,  Isaac^,  John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  May  2, 
1795.  He  was  by  occupation  a  mill-wright  and  machinist,  and  of  a 
cheerful  and  reckless  disposition.  He  married  in  March,  1815,  Jane 
Scott,  and  after  her  death  he  again  married,  August  30,  1830,  Mrs. 
Harriet  A.  Dawson,  a  widow.  Soon  after  his  second  marriage,  in  the 
fall  of  1831,  while  at  Baltimore  making  arrangements  to  move  his 
family  to  that  city,  he  disappeared,  and  is  supposed  to  have  been 
drowned. 


Orville  Hurd  Allerton. 
(165.) 


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Child.     By  second  wife. 
156   iWiLLiAM  Chamberlain^,  born  November  8,  1831;  m.  Elizabeth 
Lafarge. 

Note.— He  had  four  children  by  his  first  wife,  bfit  they  all  died  young,  leav- 
ing no  descendants. 


Y5   iCORNELIUS^    (Reuben^,   TsaacS    John*,    Isaac^,    Isaac^, 
Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  July  23, 
1779.  He  received  a  good  education  and  studied  medicine  and  sur- 
gery under  eminent  practicioners  at  New  Haven,  beginning  practice 
at  Pine  Plains,  in  Dutchess  County,  in  1803.  He  married,  September 
22,  1813,  Clarissa  Heusted,  and  died  at  Pine  Plains,  April  26,  1855. 
He  was  successful  as  a  physician,  and  esteemed  by  all  for  his  charity 
and  kindness  of  heart. 

Children.     Born  at  Pine  Plains,  Dutchess  County.,  Neiu  York. 

157  iReubenS,  born  September  2,  1814.     Died  April  16,  1816. 

158  ^IxFANT^,  born .     Died  unnamed. 

159  3Mary8,   born    February    15,    1817;  m..  May    6,    1850,    Fitzalan 

Stebbins,  of  Pen  Yan,  New  York.     Died  in  1853. 

160  *  Cornelius^,  born  May  19,  1819.     He  was  a  physician  and  sur- 

geon, and  a  man  of  fine  natural  abilities,  but  erratic  and 
indolent.  He  died  suddenly  at  Dover  Plains,  Dutchess 
County,  January  15,  1867.     Unmarried. 

161  sSarah  H.8>  born  July  27,  1826.     Died  at  Pine  Plains,  in  April, 

1859.     Unmarried.     She  was  a  teacher  by  profession. 

78  ^SAMUEL   WATERS^    (Reuben^    Isaac^    John*,    Isaac^, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac ^). 

Born  at  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  December 
5,  1785.  Married,  March  26,  1808,  Hannah  Hurd,born  1788,  in  South 
Dover,  Dutchess  County.     His  father  was  a  physician  and   he  also 


58  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY, 

studied  for  that  profession,  but  changed  his  mind  and  learned  a  trade, 
becoming  a  merchant  tailor  and  had  a  country  store.  In  1828  he  was 
one  of  the  promoters  in  building  a  woolen  factory.  In  1833  the  Dem- 
ocrats reduced  the.  tariff  and  nearly  all  the  factories  built  in  New 
England,  or  near  there,  were  monuments  of  ruin,  and  from  1835  to 
1836  nearly  every  man  who  tried  to  build  up  his  country  was  ruined. 
Samuel  W.  was  in  that  condition,  and  in  1837  he  tried  to  restore  his 
fortune  and  went  West,  to  Iowa,  with  his  oldest  son,  Henry,  where  he 
was  taken  sick.  He  came  home  without  means,  and  worked  in  a  store 
for  two  years.  During  the  fifty-seven  years  of  his  life  prior  to  1842, 
he  lived  nearly  all  the  time  in  Amenia.  He  was  for  a  long  time  a 
Trustee  of  the  Amenia  Presbyterian  Church,  but  was  not  a  commu- 
nicant, as  he  was  a  strong  Universalist.  He  was  Deputy  Sheriff  of 
Dutchess  County  for  three  years.  In  1842  he  removed  to  Yates  County, 
New  York,  where  he  rented  a  farm,  and  in  1848  bought  a  farm  in 
Wayne  County,  where  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

He  was  a  very  industrious  man,  never  idle  a  minute,  and  brought 
up  his  children  to  believe  that  true  religion  is  "Love  to  God  and 
Good  Will  to  Man."  He  was  a  man  of  sterling  integrity,  lived  to  a 
ripe  old  age  and  died  August  10,  1885,  aged  99  years  and  8  months. 
With  the  exception  of  his  youngest  son,  his  children  all  received  a 
seminary  education.  Hannah  Hurd,  his  wife,  was  the  eldest  daughter 
of  Ebenezer  and  Rebecca  (Phillips)  Hurd.  Ebenezer  Hurd  had  a  large 
farm  in  Amenia,  and  besides  farming  dealt  in  cattle  and  sheep.  He 
had  three  sons  who  were  also  farmers  and  stock  dealers.  Ebenezer 
Hurd  was  familiarly  called  "Uncle  Eb."  and  was  well  known  through 
the  eastern  part  of  New  York  State,  where  he  was  constantly  purchas- 
ing cattle  and  sheep,  which  he  drove  to  New  York  City  to  market. 
He  was  the  first  large  cattle  buyer  and  drover,  and  returned  from 
market  on  horseback  with  his  saddle-bags  loaded  down  with  the  gold 
and  silver  in  which  he  had  been  paid.  He  had  large  dealings  with 
Henry  Astor,  a  brother  of  the  famous  John  Jacob  Astor. 

Ebenezer   Hurd   was   a   son  of   Daniel   Hurd,  who  was  born   in 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  59 

Killingly,  Conn.,  and  who  married  Betsy  Allen,  of  Vermont,  a  cousin 
of  Colonel  Ethan  Allen. 

Of  the  nine  children  born  to  Samuel  Waters  Allerton,  eight  were 
alive  in  January,  1899,  and  at  a  combined  age  of  over  630  years,  show- 
ing the  rugged  ancestral  stock  from  which  they  descend. 

Children.    Born  in  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York. 

162  ^Cornelias,  born  March  26,  1809;  m.   Walter  Sherman,  a  suc- 

cessful and  thrifty  farmer  and  cattle  dealer,  and  was 
blessed  with  three  children,  Mary,  David  H.  and  Samuel. 
She  was  a  Methodist,  having  a  strong  personality  and  her 
heart  filled  with  charity  and  good  will  to  all.  When 
eighty  years  of  age  some  children  were  brought  from 
New  York  City  to  find  homes  among  the  farmers,  and 
finding  that  they  were  slow  in  taking  them,  she  volun- 
teered to  take  six,  which  gave  her  so  much  worry  that 
her  son  had  to  hire  them  kept  afterward  at  some  other 
place. 

163  ^Amaeyllis^  born  January    1,  1812;   m.   Shadrac  Sherman,  of 

Amenia,  a  cattle  dealer,  and  a  successful  man.  They  had 
three  children,  Alice  R.,  Hannah  L.,  Lois  J.  She  is  a 
woman  of  strong  personality,  and  devoted  to  her  husband 
and  children.  She  is  at  present  (1899)  eighty-seven  years 
of  age  and  attends  to  her  business  affairs  with  great 
ability. 

164  3 Henry  Reuben 8,  born  December  25,  1814.     Died  January  29, 

1899.  Unmarried.  The  following  tribute  to  his  memory 
was  written  by  his  brother  Orville  Hurd  Allerton,  or  New- 
ark, New  York:  "He  was  the  eldest  son,  born  on 
Christmas  day,  and  proved  to  be  the  best  Christmas 
present  his  parents  could  have  received,  for,  never  marry- 
ing, he  lived  with  them  nearly  all  his  life  and  was  a 
good,  kind  son.     They  had  no  fear  that  vicious  habits  or 


60  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

evil  communications  would  corrupt  his  honor  or  integrity. 
Being  with  his  mother  when  she  "passed  to  the  great 
beyond,"  his  was  the  hand  that  erected  the  monument  to 
her  memory,  and  had  engraved,  in  the  hope  and  belief 
that  God  would  reunite  them,  "God  is  Love." 

Early  in  life  he  chose  the  occupation  of  farming  as  his 
life  work,  and  continued  in  it  until  his  death.  He  was 
educated  in  the  district  school.  Until  his  fourteenth 
year  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm;  he  then,  for  two 
years,  hired  out  at  farm  work,  receiving  seven  dollars  per 
month  for  eight  months,  and  working  for  his  board  the 
remaining  four  months.  When  fifteen  years  of  age  he 
could  do  a  man's  work. 

He  continued  a  "wage  earner"  for  seven  or  eight 
years,  and  commanded  the  highest  wages  paid  at  that 
time  for  farm  labor.  "With  Henry  R.  Allerton  labor  was 
a  pleasure,  his  industry  great,  his  labor  tireless.  He 
inherited  unswerving  honesty  and  morality,  and  was  a 
sti'ictly  temperate  man.  Nature  endowed  him  with  an 
extraordinary  memory,  which  was  strengthened  by  much 
reading,  making  him  a  good  historian;  he  was  also  a  good 
mathematician  and  well  versed  in  literature.  From  early 
life  he  was  a  great  reader.  When  a  young  man  his  uncle 
Milton  B.  Allerton,  gave  him  a  copy  of  Doctor  Benjamin 
Franklin's  Works,  with  which  he  was  much  impressed. 
Always  the  "first  one  up,"  he  believed  with  Franklin 
that  "he  that  rises  late  may  trot  all  day  and  not  overtake 
his  business."  In  early  manhood  he,  in  company  with  his 
father,  went  to  Iowa,  where  he  bought  six  hundred  and 
forty  acres  of  land,  about  twenty  miles  from  the  city  of 
Dubuque.  His  father  assisted  him  to  build  a  log  house 
and  returned  to  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  by  stage, 
being  stricken  on  the  way  with  Dumb  Ague,  a  disease 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  61 

then  unknown  in  Dutchess  County,  The  second  year 
after  his  father  left  him,  Henry  was  stricken  with  the 
disease  to  such  an  extent  that  he  lost  the  use  of  both 
arms  and  legs.  His  father  took  him  to  his  home  in 
Dutchess  County,  but  it  was  three  years  before  he 
recovered  their  use.  In  1850  he  sold  his  Iowa  farm, 
together  with  one  hundred  head  of  cattle,  and  bought  the 
Lathrop  and  Blackman  farms,  containing  two  hundred 
and  thirty  acres,  on  which  his  father  was  located.  Father 
and  son  worked  the  farm  together  and  were  successful. 
Henry,  by  industry  and  wise  investments  accumulated 
more  than  a  competency,  and  at  his  death  was  the  wealth- 
iest citizen  of  the  town  in  which  he  lived. 

For  the  past  two  decades  he  lived  in  the  village  of 
Newark,  tilling  a  small  farm  of  twenty  acres,  happy  with 
his  books  and  the  companionship  of  his  brothers  and 
sisters,  and  especially  with  his  three  sisters  with  whom 
he  made  his  home,  Mrs.  Amanda  H.  Tabor,  Lois  J. 
and  Rebecca  H.  Allerton,  to  whom  he  was  more  than  a 
brother,  giving  them  the  benefit  of  his  experience  in  bus- 
iness affairs,  and  the  pleasure  of  companionship  enhanced 
by  his  richly  stored  mind. 

Liberal  minded  and  honest  in  all  his  dealings  with  his 
fellow  men,  quiet  in  disposition,  an  independent  thinker, 
not  accepting  the  views  of  any  unless  by  his  own  reflec- 
tion he  thought  them  reasonable  and  just — he  "venerated 
the  man  whose  heart  was  pure,  whose  actions  and  whose 
deeds  gave  evidence  that  he  was  honest  in  the  Sacred 
Cause."     He  was  a  noble  type  of  good  heroic  manhood. 

165  *Orville  Hurd8,  born  April  IV,  1817;  m.  Eliza  Adelaide  Dean. 

166  ^Amanda  H^,  born  July  15,  1818;  m.   William  Tabor,  who  was 

afterward  engaged  in  business  with  her  brother  0.  H. 
Allerton.     They  had  one  son,  Ernest  Tabor. 


62  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

167  ^Byron^,  born  September  20,  1822;  ra.  Helen  Sherman. 

168  '^Rebecca  H.^,  born  September  28,  1824.   She  resides  in  Newark, 

(1899)  and  is  unmarried. 

169  ®Lois  J. 8,  born  January  26,  1826.      She  resides  in  Newark,  and 

is  unmarried.  She  commenced  teaching  school  at  the  age 
of  fourteen;  is  a  very  thoughtful  and  practical  woman, 
devoted  to  her  parents,  giving  them  great  care  and  atten- 
tion in  their  old  age;  always  taking  a  great  interest  in  the 
welfare  of  her  brothers  and  sisters.  Realizing  the  impor- 
tance of  acquiring  property  for  self-protection,  she  accum- 
ulated quite  a  large  fortune.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Universalist  Church,  in  which  she  takes  a  great  interest, 
believing  true  charity,  love  to  God  and  good  will  to 
all,  is  true  religion.    She  is  beloved  by  all  who  know  her. 

1*70  ^Samuel  Waters^,  born  May  26,    1828;  m.,  first,  Pamilla  W. 
Thompson;  second,  Agnes  C.  Thompson. 

81  ">  MILTON   BARLOW^,    (Reuben  e,   Isaac  S     John*,   Isaac  % 

ISAAC^,  ISAACl). 

Born  in  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  August 
21,  1799.  Married  January  20,  1825,  Eliza  Belden.  He  was  engaged 
all  his  life  in  mercantile  pursuits,  first  in  a  country  store  in  Amenia, 
and  afterward  in  New  York  City,  where  he  died  suddenly,  December 
8,  1866. 

Children.     Born  in  Dutchess  County^  New  York. 

17 1  iClara^,  born  December  30,  1825,  at  Washington.    Died  unmar- 

ried, November  21,  1874. 

172  sMart  E.»,   born   December   7,    1827,    at    Washington.      Died 

unmarried,  November  19,  1875. 

173  ^EliphaB.^,  born  December  7,  1829,  at  Amenia;  m.  June  21, 

1853,  George  H.  Petrie.     Died  November  29,  1853. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  63 

174  *George  Milton^,  born  December  1,  1831;  m.,  first  Lois  Mab- 

bett;  second,  Mary  Alida  Leggett. 

175  ^Reuben  German  %  born   October   20,    1834;   m.    Henrietta   L. 

Vreedenburgb. 

176  6  Annie  E.^  born  October  20,  1836,  at  Dover  Plains.    Unmarried. 

Lives  in  New  York  City. 

85  *DAVID'',  (Amos^  Zachariah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac^Isaac^,  IsaacI). 
Born  1790,    in    Pennsylvania.     Married,   December    15, 
1812,  iMary  Allerton'',   (cousin)   daughter,   Job^,  Zachariah^,  Jesse*, 
Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac ^. 

Children.     Born  in  Chester  Cou?iiy,  Fenn. 

177  ^Samuel^,  born  June  8,  1814;  m,  Amelia  Swope,  born  in  Stark 

County,  Ohio. 

178  8John8,  born  July  31,  1815.     Died  August  24,  1815. 

179  3JoB«,  born  July  27,  1816.     Died  September  3,  1838. 

180  <Amos8,  born  February  14,  1818.     Died  May  1,  1826. 

181  ^Maria^,  born  November  4,  1819;  m.,  in  August,  1845,  William 

McDonnel. 

182  6Hannah8,  born  May  15,  1821;  m.,  in  1843,  Joseph  Headley. 

183  "iELEANORS,  born  October  10,  1824.     Died  August  23,  1828. 

184  8Ira8,  born  June  28,  1827.    Died  March  27,  1829. 

185  9Mary  Anne^,  born  March  30,  1829;  m.  John  Pemble,  and  now 

lives  at  Bement,  Piatt  County,  Illinois. 

186  loRosANNA^,  born  November  3,  1830;  m.,  April,  1848,  Timothy 

Sheares. 

187  hDavidS,  born  May  31,  1833.     Died,  1846. 

188  i2DA]sriEL8,  born  May  31,  1833.     Died  January  4,  1834. 

189  1 3 Ja^^es^,  born  August  20,  1835;  m.,  first,  Elizabeth   Vanostan; 

second,  Mary  A.  Niewander. 


64  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

87   ^JOHN'^,  (Amos^,  Zachariah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 
Born  September  21,  ITQS,  in  New  Jersey.    Married,  Feb- 
ruary 11,  1817,  Mary  Husong.     He  was  a  farmer  and  resided  nearly 
all  his  life  in  Euclid,  Ohio.     He  died  in  Farmington,  Ohio,  March  16, 

1846. 

Childreji.     Born  at  Euclid^  Ohio. 

190  iElizabeth^,  born  May  1,  1819;  m.  Dwight  Selden,  of  Cleveland, 

Ohio. 

191  2Amos8,  born  April  3,  1821.     Died  unmarried,  July  28,  1840. 

192  3Chloe8,   born   May  17,  1823;  m.  Charles  Tilden,  of  Jefferson 

County,  Wisconsin. 

193  *DoKCAS^,  born  May  27,  1825;  m.,  first,  Addison  House,  of  Cleve- 

land, Ohio;  second,  Moses  Warren,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

194  ^IsAAC  Chauncey^,  born  April  10,  1827;  m.,  first,  Fannie  Glines; 

second,  Elvira  A.  Giddings. 

195  ^Oliver   Hazard   Perry^,   born   March   30,    1829;   m.    Harriet 

Robertson. 

196  ''Alpheus  Burton 8,   born  February  18,  1831;  m.,  first,  Amanda 

Hoyt;  second,  Ellen  P.  Palmer. 

197  »Mary8,  born  March  5,   1833;  m.,  first,  Seneca  Fuller;  second, 

Perry  Hyer.     Lives  at  Aztalon,  Marathon  County,  Wis- 
consin. 

198  9Sarah  JaneS,  born  February  24,  1835.    Died  May  23,  1836. 

199  1  "George  W. 8,  born  February  19,  1837.     Died    A.pril  3,   1837. 

200  i^Sybil  Frances^,  born  March  14,  1839;  m.  Luke  Leatherdale, 

and  resides  at  Spencer,  Marathon  County,  Wisconsin. 

92  3  JAMES'^,  (JoHN^,  ZachariarS  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^*,  Isaac^). 

Born  in  Crawford  County,  Pennsylvania,  August  16,  1796. 

Married  April  2,  1816,  Mary  Silvers.     He  resided  in  Stark  County, 

Ohio,  until  1848,  when  he   moved   to    Huntington  County,  Indiana, 

where  he  died  September  3,  1863.     He  was  a  farmer. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  65 

Children.     Born  in  Stark  County.,  Ohio. 

201  iRachel^,   born   January  31,  1817;  m.,  March  30,    1843,   John 

Weaver. 

202  2Saeah8,  born  December  6,  1818;  m.,  November  10,  1842,  Sam- 

uel Fulmer.     Died  January  12,  1861. 

203  3Asa8,  born  January  16,  1821.     Went  to  California  in  1849,  and 

died  there.     Unmarried. 

204  *Amos8,  born  March  7,  1823;  m.  about  1849,  Rebecca  Baum. 

205  ^SophroniaS,  born  December  27,  1825;  m.,  December  20,  1849, 

Levi  Denins. 

206  6John8,  born  April  9,  1828;  m.  Nancy  Peigh. 

207  ^James^,   born  July  22,    1830.     Died  unmarried  in  Huntington 

County,  Indiana.     He  was  a  farmer. 

208  ^David  S.8,  born  August  15,  1832.     Died  unmarried,  in  Hunting- 

ton County,  Indiana.     October  12,  1853. 

209  »Hestek8,  born  February  20,  1835;  m.  Samuel  Fulmer,  of  Gar 

Creek,  Allen  County,  Indiana. 

210  JoMabts,  born  December  29,  1836;  m.  Emanuel  Kinnel,  of  Fos- 

toria,  Seneca  County,  Ohio. 

211  iiEzEKiEL^,  bom  April  22,  1839;  m.  Margaret  Gibson. 

97  sjOHN'',  (John6,  ZachakiahS,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 
Born  in  Crawford    County,    Pennsylvania,   January  31, 
1807.     Married,  June  9,  1828,  Martha  Hufman.    He  was  a  farmer  and 
resided  at  Smithtown,  Ohio,  until  1875,  when  he  moved  to  Alliance, 
and  resided  there  until  his  death,  April  15,  1882. 

Children.     Born  in  Smithtown.,  Mahoning  County,  Ohio. 

212  'HibamS,  born  May  18,  1830;  m.  Lois  Bailer. 

218  2 Andrew  J.s,  born  May  21,  1831;  m.  Martha  Babcock. 

214  ^Esther  A.s,  born  May  14,  1833.  Died  unmarried,  September  24, 
1876. 


66  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

215  ^Mary  K.8,  born  September  26,  1835;  m.,  December  25,  1866, 

Joshua  Barnaby,  of  Alliance,  Ohio.    Lives  near  Benton 
Harbor,  Michigan. 

216  sAlviraS,   born   November   26,   1837;  m.  E.  N.    Hartshorn,   of 

Mount  Union,  Stark  County,  Ohio, 

217  6 William  H.^,  born  February  10,  1841;  m.  Amelia  Scranton. 

218  'Almond^,  born  November  16,  1843.     Served  in  Union  Army. 

Killed  at  battle  of  Stone  River,  December  31,  1862. 

219  8John8,  born  September  20,  1845;  m.  Fannie  E.  Hanson. 

220  ^Francis^,  born  February  28,  1848;  m.  Henrietta  Oby. 

221  ioFriend  J.%  born  December  21,  1850.     Died  April  25,  1853. 

99  2 JOHN  LUTZ%  (Stephens  Zachariah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  November  5,  1799,  in  Shamokin,  Northumberland 
County,  Pennsylvania.  Married,  July  10,  1823,  Hetta  Mackey,  of 
Coitsville,  Ohio.  He  was  a  shoemaker  and  resided  nearly  all  his  life 
at  Coitsville,  where  he  died  January  17,  1852. 

Children.     Born  in  Coitsville^  Mahoning  Comity,  Ohio. 

222  1  Stephen  Whitmore^,  born  June  11,    1824.     Died   unmarried, 

1862,  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  while  serving  in  the  Union 
Army. 

223  2Admetus  Ogden^,  born  October  30,  1825.     Served  through  the 

Mexican  War,  and  soon  after  returning  home,  died  Sep- 
tember 28,  1848.     Unmarried. 

224  3Mary  L.8,  born  May  16,  1827;  m.  William  Alexander,  a  farmer, 

of  Espyville,  Pennsylvania. 

225  < Abigail  M.  Shorn  April  1,  1829;  m.  Thomaa  Hogg,  a  farmer,  of 

Coitsville,  and  now  resides  at  Hollis,  Kansas. 

226  ^Catherine  L.S  born   July   7,    1830;   m.  Henry  F.  Holden,   of 

Michigan.     Died  in  1860. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  67 

227  ^Teressa  B.8,  born  February  15, 1833;  m.  Harvey  Hill,  a  farmer, 

of  Lyme,  Ohio. 

228  "Ester  O.^,  born  November  16,  1834;  m.  George  B.  St.  John,  a 

merchant,  of  Toledo,  Ohio. 

229  ^Ira^,  born  December  15,  1837;  m.  Mary  A.  Hoagg. 

230  ^Hannah  R.^,  born  March  6,  1840;  m.  Addison  Randall,  farmer, 

of  East  Hubbard,  Ohio. 

231  i^Lemira  C.^,  born  August  22,  1842.     Unmarried,  and  resides  at 

Youngstown,  Ohio.     Some  valuable  information  for  this 
work  was  obtained  from  her. 

232  i^JoHN^,  born  August  17,  1844;  m.  Amanda  Campbell. 

101  sjAMES'',  ( Job 6,  Zachariah^  Jesse*,  Isaac 3,  Isaac 2,  Isaac  1). 

Born  in  New  Jersey,  November  11,  1798.  Married,  in 
1823  or  1824,  Eleanor  Kellogg,  and  resided  at  Deerfield,  Portage 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  died  in  1840. 

Children.     Bor?i  at  Deerfield^  Portage  County^  Ohio. 

233  1  Oliver  H.^,  born  May  25,  1825;  m.  Sarah  McCoy. 

234  ^Catherines,  born  April  8,  1827.     Died  April  9,  1846. 

235  3Sarah8,  born  November  9,  1829;  m.,  August  21,  1851,  Stephen 

Randall.     Died  July  29,  1869. 

236  ^Eleanors,  born  March  19,  1833.     Died  August  25,  1835. 

237  5  James ^  born  January  2,  1836.     Died  April  14,  1837. 

102  3SAMUEL^  (Job6,  ZachariarS,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  near  Baltimore,  Md.,  January  3,  1801.  Married,  in 
1823,  Elizabeth  Pool,  of  Stark  County,  Ohio,  who  died  December  27, 
1823,  after  the  birth  of  a  son,  John  Porter  Allerton^.  In  1826  he  married 
Mary  Baughman,  of  Carroll  County,  Ohio.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and 
farmer,  a  successful  business  man  and  a  good  citizen,  and  resided  in 


68  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Carroll  and  Stark  Counties  all  his  life.     He  died  at  Alliance,  Ohio, 
Jaunary  11,  1870. 

Children.     Born  at  Wayfiesburgh,  Ohio. 

238  1  John  Portek^,  born  December  16, 1823;  m.,  in  April,  1849,  Sarah 

T.  Sargent,  of  New  Albany,  Indiana,  and  soon  after  settled 
in  Louisville,  Ky.,  where  he  still  resides.  He  is  a  moulder 
by  trade,  and  a  man  of  unusually  fine  appearance.  (No 
children). 

239  ^Samubl^,  born  September  9,  1827;  m.  Jane  G.  Mitchner, 

240  ^Zachariah^,   born   April    14,    1829;   m.,   first,   Sarah  Hartzell; 

second,  Eva  Partello. 

241  '^George  W.^,  born  November  16,  1830.     He  was  a  saddler  and 

harness  maker  at  Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  and  was  very 
successful  in  business.  He  never  married,  and  was  killed 
while  on  a  hunting  expedition  about  1868. 

242  ^Williams,  born  December  13,  1832;  m.  Elizabeth  McKee. 

243  ^EnocrS,  born  June  16,  1835;  m.  Mary  Knapp. 

244  ^Mary  Elizabeth^,  born   January  24,   1837;  m.,  July  2,  1857, 

John  Joseph.     Died  February  21,  1877. 

245  ^IsABELLA^,  born  November  25,  1839;  m.,  July  2,  1857,  James 

Kynett,  of  Canton,  Ohio.  Resides  now  at  Alliance, 
Ohio. 

246  ^Jacob^,   born   May   4,    1841.     He   served    in  the  Union  Army 

during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  and  lost  one  eye  in 
battle.     Unmarried.     Lives  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

247  1 ''Rachel  E.^,  born  September  22,  1844.     Unmarried.     Resides 

at  Adriance,  Michigan. 

248  i^Calista^,  born  August  25,  1847;  m.  Richard  W.  Teeters,  of 

Alliance,  Ohio,  where  she  now  resides. 

249  i^is^^c^  born  November  23,  1850;  m.  Susan  McLaughlin. 


Amanda  H.  (Allerton)  Tabok. 
(166.) 


NINTH    GENERATION. 


106  ^HENRYS,    (John   Russell^   John6,   John^,  JohnS  Isaac^, 

ISAAC^,  IsAACl). 

Born  at  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  January  29,  1848.  Married, 
October  10,  1870,  Maria  Neff,  and  after  her  death  married,  second, 
September  6,  1885,  Mrs.  Abby  M.  Porter.  He  resided  on  the  farm  at 
Brooklyn  until  1876,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Lawrence,  Mass.,  where 
he  is  connected  with  the  local  telegraph  and  telephone  company. 

Child. 

250  iAdaline  Spalding^,   born   September   9,    1871,    at   Brooklyn, 
Conn. 


114  6RANSOM8,   (Joshua^  Jonathan^  Isaac^,   John*,    Isaac^ 

IsAAc^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Cairo,  New  York,  February  21,  1811.  Married, 
March  2,  1847,  Luvina  R.  Colson.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  at 
Manchester,  Ontario  County,  New  York. 

Children.     Born  in  Manchester,  New  York. 

251  iFlorence9,  born  November    20,   1848;  m.,  October    16,    1872, 

Seneca  Short,  a  farmer,  of  Port  Gibson,  New  York. 

252  2FREDERICK  Mead^,  bom  December  26,  1850,  ra.,  first,  October 

23,  1878,  Cornelia  Sherman,  of  Arcadia,  Wayne  County; 
second,    November   25,    1885,  Minnie   A.    Rogers.     He 


70  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

resides  at  Newark,  Wayne  County,   New  York,  and  is 
engaged  iu  the  produce  business.     He  has  no  children. 

253  3TI1ERON  Yeoman^,  born  March  5,  1853;  m.,  February  3,  1886, 

Ann  Huldah  Chapman. 

254  ''Mary^,  born  February  15,  1855. 

255  5Anxa»,  born  December  25,  1856. 

256  "LucY^,  born  November  27,  1859. 

257  "^AuGUSTA^,  born  May  27,  1863. 

258  8Edith9,  born  June  10,  1867. 

116   'WILLIAM  C.s,  (Joshua",  Jonathan^,  IsaacS  John*,  Isaac', 

ISAAC^,  ISAAC^). 

Born  at  Cairo,  Greene  County,  New  York,  June  11,  1815. 
Married,  January  1,  1840,  Esther  Welsh,  who  died  in  1841.  Married 
again,  February  12,  1843,  Jane  A.  Green.  He  has  been  a  farmer  all 
his  life,  at  Gay  Head,  Greene  County,  New  York,  where  he  now 
resides. 

Children.     By  first  wife.     Born  at  Cairo. 

259  1  Ransom  Welch ^  born  December  2,  1840;  m.  Letitia  Betts. 

By  second  wife.     Borji  at  Gay  Head. 

260  2LE0NARD  Green»,  bom  June  11,  1845;  m.  Mary  Stevens. 

261  3REUBEN  Germans,  born  December  14,  1846.     Died  September 

23,  1872.     Unmarried. 

262  "Caroline  Elizaueth^,  born  August  9,  1849.     Unmarried. 

263  ^Harriets,  born  1852.     Died,  infant. 

264  6Lodema9,  born  1853.     Died,  infant. 

265  ^Adaline  J.9,  born  January  30,  1854.     Unmarried. 

266  8 William  MyronS  born  December  27,  1855;  m.  Hannah  Hoge. 

267  9  James  Mead^,  born  July  11,  1861.     Unmarried. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  71 

117   sjAMESi^,  (Joshua^,  Jonathan^,  Isaac^  John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  at  Cairo,  New  York,  March  29,  1817.  Married,  Dec- 
ember 17,  1851,  Eliza  Ann  Huntington.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Greene 
County,  New  York.  Committed  suicide  while  insane,  at  Greenville, 
in  that  county,  February  4,  1869. 

Children.     Born  at  Cairo,  Greene  County,  New  York. 

268  1  Walter  Mead^,  born  May  29,  1853:     Died,   1874,  at  Cincin- 

atti,  Ohio. 

269  2Maky  Catherine^,  born  May  9,  1857. 

122   <TOWN SENDS,  (Isaac'',  Jonathan^,   IsaacS   John*,   Isaac^, 

ISAAC^,    ISAAC^). 

Born  in  Greene  County,  New  York,  July  23,  1812. 
Married,  February  1,  1838,  Ann  Chapin,  and  soon  aftei-ward  removed 
to  Savona,  Steuben  County,  New  York,  where  he  now  resides. 

Children.     Born  in  Steube?i  County,  New  York. 

270  1  JuDSON^,  born  November  25,  1838.     Served  in  the  Union  Army 

during    the    Rebellion.     Now    living   at    Emmetsville, 
Idaho.     Unmarried. 

271  sLamar'',  born  April  11,  1841.     Died  August  28,  1845. 

272  ^LuTHERA^,  born  March  28,  1843.     Unmarried. 

273  ^Annette^,  born  January  15,  1846;  m.,  November  19,  1865,  Isaac 

Nobles,    a   farmer,    of    Savona,    Steuben   County,    New 
York. 

274  sEmily",  born  February  9,  1849;  m.,  first.  May  11,  1871,  George 

Beaton;     second,    January     14,    1880,     James     Milford 
Andrews,  of   Syracuse. 

275  ^Frank  C.9,  born  January  13,  1855;  m.  Emma  CoUson. 


72  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

123  OLEANDERS,    (Isaac'',  Jonathan e,    Isaac^,    John*,    Isaac^, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac ^). 

Born  in  Greene  County,  New  York,  June  1,  1814.  Mar- 
ried, February  28,  1844,  Jane  Bryan,  daughter  of  George  Bryan. 
Removed  to  Steuben  County,  and  was  a  lumberman  and  farmer,  and  a 
local  politician  of  some  note.  He  now  resides  at  Savona,  Steuben 
County,  New  York. 

Childrefi.     Born  in  Steuben  County^  New  York. 

276  iSoPHiA^,  born  August  14,  1846;  m.,  August  7,  1873,  Edmund  P. 

Heulett,  a  farmer,  of  Rafael,  California. 

277  ^George^,  born  August  4,  1848.     Unmarried. 

278  ^Elizabeth^,  born  May  5,  1851.     Unmarried. 

279  ^Charles  Bradeokd^,  born  April  28,  1856.     Unmarried. 

124  6DELANS0NS,   (Isaac^   Jonathan^,   Isaac^,  John*,   IsaacS 

Isaac 2,  Isaac ^). 

Born  in  Greene  County,  New  York,  May  7,  1816.  Mar- 
ried, February  10,  1848,  Mary  Jane  Dudley.  He  is  a  farmer  by 
occupation,  and  now  resides  at  Savona,  Steuben  County,  New  York. 

Children.     Born  in  Steuben  County,  New  York. 

280  ^Frances  Caroline^,  born  February  26, 1849;  m.,  September  27, 

1876,  Adam  Parker,  of  San  Francisco,  California. 

281  2Sarah9,  born  April  26,  1854.     Unmarried. 

282  3Dudley9,  born  May  20,  1859. 

283  *Mary»,  born  i\pril,  1866.     Died,  infant. 

126  8J0HN  T.8,  (IsAAc'^,  Jonathan^,  Isaac^  John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^, 

ISAAC^). 

Born  at  Benton,  Yates  County,  New  York,  November 
1,  1820.  Married,  November  1,  1847,  Caroline  Rapelyea.  He  was 
a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  resided  in  Seneca  County,  New  York, 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  73 

for  eight  years  after  his  marriage.  In  1856  he  moved  with  his  family 
to  Kalamazoo  County,  Michigan,  where  he  has  lived  ever  since.  He 
now  resides  in  Galesburg,  in  that  county,  a  prosperous  and  contented 
farmer. 

Children. 

284  iHukon9,  born  November  14,   1848,  at  Bath,    Steuben   County, 

New   York;  m.,  November  25,  1883,  Eliza   Guthrie,  of 
Macelona,  Michigan. 

285  2Kate  Charlottes,  born  April  2,  1851.     Died  March  21,  1864. 

286  3Ida9,  born    November  25,  1853,    at    Covert,    New   York;   m., 

January  8,  1878,  Aaron  H.   Carr,  of  Galesburgh,  Mich- 
igan. 

287  ^Fredeeick  Woodworth9,    born    April    9,    1856;    m.    Jennie 

Guthrie. 

288  sMary  Ellen",  born  March  19,  1859,  at  Comstock,  Michigan; 

m.,   February   22,    1887,  Addison   J.  Plank,  of   Anoka, 
Minnesota. 

289  sLizziE   Carolines   born  September    28,    1867,    at   Comstock, 

Michigan. 

133  2GE0RGE  C.8,  (Reuben',  Jonathans  Isaac ^  John *,  Isaac 3, 

IsAAc^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Cairo,  Greene  County,  New  York,  October  5, 
1815.  Married,  November  16,  1842,  Hannah  Hungerford.  He  was  a 
machinist  by  occupation,  and  resided  nearly  all  his  life  at  Elmira, 
Chemung  County,  New  York,  at  which  place  he  now  lives. 

Children. 

290  1  Willis  R.^,  born  June  14,  1846.     Died  June  9,  1848. 

291  2FRANK  H.S  born  September  21,  1849;  m.  Alice  T.  Hoffman. 


74  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY, 

140  2GE0RGE  W  ASHINGTONs,  (Akciiibald  M.%  David«,  IsaacB, 

John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  December  25,  1806.  Married,  December  4,  1835, 
Margaret  R.  Dobbin,  of  New  York  City.  Resided  during  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  New  York  City,  where,  like  his  father  and  brothers, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  live-stock  business.  He  was  also  a  local  poli- 
tician of  considerable  note,  and  was  several  times  elected  Alderman. 
He  died  at  Fordham,  New  York,  August  14,  1870. 

Children.     Born  i?i  New  York  City. 

292  iAlice  Rebecca^,  born    November  29,   1836.     Died  March    15, 

1837. 

293  2Chaklotte  Bailey^,  born  December  23,  1837;  m.,  March    11, 

1858,  William  C.  Burmiston,  of  New  York  City. 

294  3JA3IES  Dobbin^,  born  January  10,  1839.     Killed  by  accidental 

discharge  of  a  gun,  while  hunting,  April  14,  1860. 

295  4JosEPHiNT<:9,  born  February  28,  1841;  m.,  June   8,  1865,  John  D. 

Young,  of  New  York  City. 

296  ^George  WashingtonS,  born  March  17,  1843;  m.  Elizabeth  R. 

Judd. 

297  eMAT.Y  Greexwood9,  born  November    29,  1846;   m.,  November 

29,  1865,  William  Merritt.     Died  January  23,  1875, 

298  ''MargatvET  Louisa»,  born  February  17,   1848;   m.,   August    19, 

1869,  Isaac  C.  Drake,  of  New  York  City.     Died  Novem- 
ber 1,  1875. 

299  sEliza  Miller^,  born  March  24,  1850.     Unmarried. 

300  9David  Dyckman^,  born  May  29,  1853;  m.  Mary  E.  Matthews. 

301  1  "Charles  Hexry^,  born  May  9,  1856.     Died  January  19,  1858, 

141   SANSON  M0NTG0MERY8,  (Archibald  M.^  David  %  Isaac  S 

John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^), 

Born  May  30, 1809.    Married,  December  18,  1838,  Tamon 
H.  Lockwood,  and  after  her  death  married.  May  21,  1851,  Ann  M. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  75 

Austin.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  resided,  until  after  his 
second  marriage,  in  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  then  moved  to 
Illinois,  and  died  in  that  State,  June  9,  1863. 

Children. 

302  iAlmyra  Pardee^,   born  April  20,    1840;  m.,  March  28,    1860, 

Hamilton  Bingham. 

303  2Alice  Rebecca^,  born  March  7,  1843;  ra.,  May  17,  1865,  EUery 

Stebbins,  of  Clinton,  New  York. 

304  3I:«jFA>rT9,  born  March,  1844.     Died  unnamed. 

305  *Abby  Lockwood^,  born  April  24,  1846;  m.,  January   14,   1866, 

John  A.  Edwards. 

306  "Lewis  Pardee'',  born  April  Y,  1847,     Died,  infant. 

307  8 Charles  Henry »,  born  May  6,  1852.     Civil  engineer.     Resides 

at  Bellingham,  Whatcom  County,  Washington. 

308  ''William  Chamberlain 9,  born  December  31,  1854.     Hat  manu- 

facturer.    Lives  in  Danbury,  Conn. 

309  sMiNNiE^,  born  October  29,   1857;  m.,  first,    October   24,    1881, 

Samuel   B.    Mead,  who  died   October  29,  1882;  second, 
September  9,  1886,  Edward  P.  Allen,  of  New  York  City. 

310  ^Archibald  Montgomery^,  born  January  16,  1861.    Unmarried. 

311  1  "Lewis  Anson^,  born  November  2,  1863.     Died  September  10, 

1864. 


145  ■'DAVIDS,  (Archibald   M.'',   David^,  Isaac^,  John^,  Isaac^, 

Is  A  AC  2,  Isaac  ^). 

Born  at  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  July  27, 
1818.  Married,  January  25,  1845,  Rachel  Ward  Ilurd,  daughter  of 
Hebron  Hurd,  of  Amenia.  He  was  engaged  in  the  live  stock  business 
in  the  City  of  New  York  all  his  life,  with  the  exception  of  a  trip  to 
California  in  1849  and  1850.  For  many  years  he  was  one  of  the  own- 
ers of  the  stock  yards  and  cattle  markets  at  Fourth  avenue  and  44th 
street,  and  afterward  at  Third  avenue  and  100th  street.     He  was  also 


76  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

largely  interested  in  copper  mining  in  the  upper  peninsula  of  Mich- 
igan; and  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  supplied  the  government 
with  cattle  and  grain  for  the  use  of  the  army.  He  was  an  enterprising 
and  successful  business  man  and  at  one  time  was  quite  wealthy.  He 
resided  in  New  York  City  until  1864,  when  he  removed  to  Mount 
Vernon,  in  Westchester  County,  where  he  died,  March  3,  1877,  and 
was  buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery. 

Children. 

312  'Eliza  Jeannette^,  born  November  19,  1845,  in  New  York  City, 

m.,  February  19,  1876,  Rev.  William  Berriam  Hooper,  an 
Episcopal  clergyman.  Living,  1888,  at  Portchester,  New 
York. 

313  2Amy  Baelow^,  born  July  29,  1847,  in  Amenia,  New  York;  m., 

April  12,  1870,  William  Augustus  Hustuce.  Lives  at 
Mount  Vernon,  New  York. 

314  3David9,  born  July  3,  1851;  m.  Matilda  C.  Salisbury. 

315  4  Walter  Scott^,  born  October  4,  1852;  m.  Adalaide  L.  Herson. 

316  sRuFus  KiNG^  born  October  1,  1854;  m.  Lavina  Irish. 

317  ^William  Beal^  born   February  15,  1857.     Died  February  5, 

1860. 

318  ''Rachel  Berry^,  born  June  15,  1859;  m.,  June  25,  1883,  John 

B.  Berry.     Resides  in  Chicago,  Illinois. 

319  ^Mary  Sibley^,  born  January  31,  1863.     Unmarried. 

320  ^Frederick  Sibley^,  born  May  16,  1866.    Died  March  10,  1870. 

146  8ARCHIBALD  MONTGOMERY^,  (Archibald  M.'',  DavidS 
IsAAC^  John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac'). 
Born  February  14,  1821.  Married,  September  20,  1846, 
Charlotte  A.  Robson.  He  was  connected  in  business  with  his  bro- 
ther David  during  the  lifetime  of  the  latter,  and  accompanied  him  to 
California,  and  also  removed  from  New  York  City  to  Mount  Vernon, 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILV.  77 

Westchester  County,  in  1864.     He  is  now  engaged  in  the  coal  busi- 
ness in  New  York. 

Children.     Born  in  New  York  City. 

321  ^Maey  Louisa^,  born  July  15,  1847.     Died  May  15,  1850. 

322  ^George  Robson^,  born  April  10,  1851;  m.,  September  30,  1885, 

Marion  Hungerford. 

323  ^Charlotte  A.^,  born  June  22,  1855;  m.,  January  3,  1883,  Ernest 

Staples. 


150  3H0RACE  W.8,  (Isaac'',  David^  Isaacs,  John*,  IsaacS  Isaac^, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  at  North-East,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  April 
15,  1814,  Married,  December  10,  1835,  Ann  Eliza  Otter.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  a  dealer  in  live  stock.  He  resides  at  Port  Jervis,  New 
York. 

Children. 

324  ^Sylvia  Ann^  born   November   28,    1836,  at  New  Paltz,  New 

York;  m.,  October  7,  1857,  Gustavus  Bramm. 

325  sGeorge  W.9,   born   July  10,  1838,  at  Deer    Park,  New  York. 

Died  in  infancy. 

326  ^Eleanor  L.^,  born  July  17,  1842,  at  Deer  Park,  New  York;  m., 

December  23,  1862,  Charles  Williams. 

327  *Matilda9,  born  August  10,  1848,  at  Deer  Park,  New  York;  m., 

June  23,  1875,  George  E.  Truax. 

328  sSarah  C.^  born  February  11,  1852,  at  Deer  Park,  New  York; 

m.,   January    1,    1872,  Moses   Smith,    of   Deposit,   New 
York. 

329  6Mary  E.9,  born  February  1,  1856,  at  Deer  Park,  New  York. 

Unmarried. 

330  ''William  H.^,  born  October  17,  1858;  m.  Antoinette  Stidd. 


78  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

153  6JAMES  M.^  (Isaac'',  David^,  Isaac^  John^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  on  the  schooner  Neptune,  off  the  coast  of  New 
Jersey,  August  18,  1822.  Married,  April  4,  1848,  Amelia  S.  Adams, 
who  died  July  14,  1860.  He  married  again,  November  14,  1861, 
Mary  E.  Goble,  and  for  a  third  wife,  June  3,  1885,  Jennie  E.  Knight. 
He  was  a  farmer  in  the  town  of  Deer  Park,  in  Orange  County,  New 
York,  until  1869,  when  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar;  his  attention  hav- 
ing been  drawn  to  the  legal  profession  by  his  successful  defense  of 
himself  against  a  charge  of  assault  and  battery,  which  created  great 
amusement  at  the  time,  and  the  report  of  which,  first  printed  in  a 
local  paper,  was  widely  copied.  Since  1869,  he  has  practiced  law  at 
Port  Jervis,  in  Orange  County,  and  although  but  poorly  educated,  his 
shrewdness  and  natural  ability  has  made  him  quite  successful. 

Children.     Bor7i  at  Deer  Park,  Orange  Coimiy,  New  York. 

331  iMary  Maria^,  born  January  10,  1849;  m.,  October  27,  1870, 

Joseph  Wilken. 

332  ^Alexander  W.^,  born  August  27,  1850.     Died  May  22,  1857. 

333  3GERTRUDE  A.^,  bom  February  22,  1852;  m.,  October  2,  1873, 

Howell  P.  Stone. 

334  *Chauncey  James^  born  January  3,  1854.     Died  December  22, 

1856. 

335  ^SusAN  Louise^,  born  April  28,  1856;  m.,  December  28,  1875, 

George  Baker. 

336  ^George  Oliver^  born  May  30,  1858;  m.  Sarah  Harding. 

Born  at  Fort  Jervis^  New  York. 

337  Ambrose  B.^,  born  November  10,  1862.     Died,  infant. 

338  Adella  M.^   born   December    18,   1865;   m.,   October   7,    1883, 

Frank  Burris. 

339  ^Ira^,   born   February    10,    1868.     Unmarried.       Died    at   Fort 

Worth,  Texas,  December  12,  1887. 

340  MAURICE^  born  February  25,  1870.     Died  December  13,  1879. 

341  Norman^  born  April  13,  1876. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  79 

155  ^ISAACS,   (Isaac'',  Daniel^  Isaac^,   John*,    Isaac^,   Isaac^, 

Isaac  1). 

Born  in  New  York  City,  September  5,  1828.  Married, 
April  4,  1852,  Eliza,  daughter  of  Hiram  McDaniel,  of  Chenango 
County,  New  York.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  joiner  by  occupation, 
and  an  inventor  of  several  mechanical  improvements.  He  resided  at 
Deer  Park,  Orange  County,  and  afterward  at  Port  Crane  in  Broome 
County,  New  York.  From  1862  to  1865  he  served  in  the  Union 
Army  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  and  in  1886  be  removed  to 
Killmaster,  Alcona  County,  Michigan,  where  he  now  resides. 

Children.    Born  in  Port  Crane,  Broome  Cotiniy,  New  York. 

342  iSaeah  Ann9,  born  February  19, 1853.   Died  November  29,  1872. 

Unmarried. 

343  2JonN  Hajmilton^,  born  February  28,  1855.     Lives  in  Killmas- 

ter, Michigan. 

Born  at  Osborn  Hollow,  Broome  County,  New  York. 

344  ^Hiram  Reuben^,  born  September  1,  1856;  m.  Elizabeth  Stone. 

345  ^Florence  Ora^  born  June  23, 1858;  m.,  in  1883,  Frank  Wardell 

of  Binghamton,  New  York. 

346  ^Jeannette  Sylvia^,  born  March  1,  1860;  m.,  in  1881,  James  N. 

Daniels,  of  Binghamton,  New  York. 

347  ^Ida  Theresa^,  born  November  10,  1861;  m.,  November  2,  1878, 

William  Storms,  of  Binghamton,  New  York. 

Born  at  Port  Crane,  Broome  County,  New  York. 

348  '^\j\7.7A^  Etta9,  born  August  21,  1863. 

349  sAlice  E.9,  born  February  15,  1867. 

350  9 Willis  Walter^,  born  December  2,  1868. 

351  loMiNA  May9,  born  June  6,  1871.     Died  March  21,  1876. 

352  i^IsAAC  Horace^,  born  September  17,  1875. 


80  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

156   1  WILLIAM    CHAMBERLAINS,     (Jambs'" ,    Davido,    IsaacS 

John*,  Isaac^,   Is^vac^,   Isaac^). 

Born  at  Greenburg,  Westchester  County,  New  York, 
November  8,  1831.  Before  his  birth  his  father  disappeared,  as  has 
been  related.  He  was  of  a  roving  and  unsettled  disposition,  but 
resided  most  of  the  time  in  Westchester  County,  New  York,  until 
1874,  when  he  removed  to  Van  Buren  County,  Michigan,  where  he  was 
a  farmer,  and  also  worked  at  his  trade  of  carpenter  and  joiner. 
Married,  March  Y,  1852,  Elizabeth  Lafarge.  He  now  resides  at 
Kendall,  Van  Buren  County,  Michigan. 

Children. 

353  1  Harriet  Eliza^,  born  June  19,  1854,  in  Westchester  County, 

New  York,  m.,  February  8,  1880,  Charles  D.  Lockwood. 
Lives  in  Michigan. 

354  ^Anson  Rudolph^,  born  July  19,  1857,     Unmarried. 

355  3Kate  Elizabeth^,  born  February  26,  1862.     Died,  infant. 

356  ^Clarissa  Bell^,  born  February  26,  1862.     Died,  infant. 

357  sWiLMiNA^,  born  June  24,  1864.     Died,  infant. 

358  "Olive  Maby^,  born  May  21,  1866.     Died,  infant. 

165  "ORVILLE  HURD8,  (Samuel  W.',  ReubenS  IsaacS  John*, 
IsAAC^,   Isaac^,   Isaac  ^). 

Born  at  Amenia,  New  York,  April  17,  1816.  Married, 
January  15,  1845,  Eliza  Adelaide  Dean,  of  Dresden,  Yates  County, 
New  York.  She  was  a  natural  and  self-taught  artist,  and  had  she 
applied  herself  to  a  thorough  cultivation  of  the  art,  would  have  made 
her  mark  as  a  portrait  and  landscape  painter.  As  a  wife,  no  more 
true,  noble  or  trustworthy  heart  ever  beat  in  human  breast. 

Orville,  when  ten  years  of  age,  began  work  in  a  comb  factory, 
intending  to  learn  the  trade,  but,  in  a  few  months  the  proprietor  sold 
out  and  moved  away.  He  then  for  a  time  did  light  work  upon  a 
farm,  for  which  he  received,  as  pay,  the  sum  of  three  cents  a  day. 


Orville  Hlrd  Allkkton,  Jr. 
(360.) 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  81 

An  uncle  was  chiefly  engaged  in  the  live  stock  business.     When 
Orville  was  eleven  years  old  his  uncle  took  him  out  of  school  to  help 
him  drive  a  drove  of  cattle  to  the  New  York  market,  one  hundred 
miles  distant.     When  twenty-one  miles  from  home,  Orville  became  so 
homesick  that  he  could  not  be  induced  to  go  farther.     Two  men  on 
horseback  were  going  eight  miles  toward  his  home.     Orville  kept  up 
with  them  on  foot  and  reached  home  that  evening,  averaging  over  five 
miles   per   hour  for  four  hours.     Love  of  home  has  always   been   a 
strong  feature  of  his  character.     Five  times  he  drove  cattle  to  New 
York  with  his  uncle,  each  time  on  foot.     He  was  paid  twenty-five 
cents  per  day  and  steamboat  fare  to  Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  thirty 
miles  from  home,  which  distance  he  then  walked,  unless  he  happened 
to  find  a  teamster  who  would  allow  him  to  ride  part  of  the  way.     His 
education  up  to  his  fourteenth  year  was  received  in  the  district  school 
and  the  select  school  of   Dr.  Leonard    and   the   Amenia   seminary. 
At   the   age   of    thirteen   he   became   a   clerk  in  a  store  at  Nassau, 
New   York,   and   later,   at    Dover    Plains,    New   York.       He    later 
went    to    Elmira,    New    York,    where    he    secured    a    position    as 
clerk  in  a  large  store.     In  1839  he  received  letters  from  his  brother 
Henry,  who  had  settled  in  Iowa,  urging  him  to  visit  him,  and  telling 
him  that  he  could  there  better  his  financial  condition  in  a  store  in  that 
State.     Orville  left  Elmira,  October  4th,  on  board  a  packet  boat  on 
the  Erie  Canal.    At  Buffalo  he  took  passage  on  a  steamer  crowded  with 
five  hundred  and  twenty-one  passengers.       When  entering  Saginaw 
Bay  a  furious  storm  arose.     Nearly  all  the  passengers  were  seasick 
and  frightened,  believing  the  boat  would  be  wrecked.    The  passengers 
cried  and  prayed.     After  several  hours  had  passed,  a  safe  anchorage 
was  made  in  the  St.  Clair  river.     At  a  "praise  meeting"  held   thtt 
night,  the  Captain  said  that  in  twenty  years'  experience  he  had  never 
seen  so  severe  a  storm  as  that  through  which  they  had  just  passed. 
Orville  arrived  in  safety  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  went  from  there  by 
stage  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  two  hundred  miles  distant.     The  roads  were 
in  such  condition  that  frequently  the  passengers  had  to  help  pry  the 


82  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

wheels  out  of  the  mud.     He  walked  from  Dubuque,  twenty  miles,  to 
his  brother  Henry's  home. 

The  store  he  entered  was  a  very  crude  affair,  the  stock  being  prin- 
cipally plug  tobacco,  clay  pipes  and  whisky.  He  was  there  but  five 
weeks,  when  he  returned  to  Elmira.  His  experience  as  clerk  and 
book-keeper  for  twelve  years,  gave  him  a  thorough  knowledge  of  bus- 
iness principles,  and  laid  the  foundation  of  his  character.  Integrity 
and  industry  enabled  him,  in  later  years  to  reach  a  high  measure  of 
success.  He  came  to  Newark,  New  York,  in  1842,  and  began  a  mer- 
cantile career  which  continued  for  twenty-five  years.  After  thirty- 
seven  years  of  indoor  work  he  found  it  necessary,  on  account  of  failing 
health,  to  change  his  business.  He  sold  his  store  and  goods  and 
accepted,  in  1868,  a  position  offered  him  by  his  brother  Samuel  W. 
AUerton,  as  superintendent  of  the  Pennsylvania  Central  Stock  Yards 
at  Pittsburg,  Penn.,  a  position  of  great  responsibility  and  liberal 
compensation.  He  remained  there  seventeen  years,  and  retired  at  that 
time,  after  fifty-four  years  of  active  business  life,  with  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  his  employers. 

He  is  possessed  of  strong  controversial  talent,  is  an  able  writer, 
and  some  of  the  best  articles  in  the  public  press  are  from  his  pen. 
They  are  concise,  clear  and  very  argumentative.  He  is  of  liberal 
mind,  a  strong  believer  in  free  thought  and  opinion;  is  consistent  in 
politics  and  can,  when  called  upon,  give  an  address  at  once  pointed 
and  convincing. 

His  measure  of  success  in  life  he  owes  chiefly  to  promptness  in  busi- 
ness, order,  industry  and  integrity.  The  man  who  has  made  money  by 
strict  attention  to  his  own  business,  and  by  non-interference  with  the 
affairs  of  others,  he  considers  a  good  example  to  follow.  He  has  been 
very  successful  in  the  purchase  and  sale  of  Western  railroad  stocks 
and    other    speculative    operations,    and   has    accumulated   a    large 

property. 

He  now  (1899)  lives  in  Newark,  New  York,  where  he  has  invested 
a  large  sum  in  the  purchase  of  a  fine  farm  of  160  acres  and  has  erected 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  83 

one  of  the  best  and  finest  residences  in  the  county,  which,  with  its 
fine  garden  and  grounds,  is  an  ornament  to  Newark. 

Children.     Born  at  Newark^  JVew  York. 

359  ^Clarences,  born  1849.     Died,  aged  nine  months. 

360  ^Orville  Hurd9,  born  October  3,  1851;  m.  Ida  C.  Leggett. 

167  6BYRON8,  (Samuel  W.^   ReubenS   IsaacS   JohnS   Isaac^ 

IsAAC^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Amenia,  New  York,  September  20,  1822. 
Married,  September  22, 1868,  Helen  Sherman,  at  Dover  Plains,  Dutch- 
ess County,  New  York.  He  was  a  farmer  and  cattle  dealer  and 
resided  in  Newark,  Wayne  County,  New  York.  He  always  took  a 
great  interest  in  public  questions. 

Children.     Born  in  Newark,  New  York. 

361  1  Samuel  Waters  »,  born  November  2,  1869. 

362  2RicHARD  Harrison',  born  October  20,  1880. 

170  9SAMUEL  WATERS8,  (Samuel  W.\  Reubens,  IsaacS  John*, 

IsAAC^,   IsAAC^,   Isaac!). 

Born  at  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  New  York.  Married 
July  1,  1860,  Pamilla  W.  Thompson,  of  Peoria,  Illnois,  and  after  her 
death  married  her  sister,  Agnes  C.  Thompson,  March  15,  1882. 
Samuel  Waters  AUerton  was  the  youngest  of  nine  children.  When 
he  was  but  seven  years  of  age  he  received  an  impression  which  has 
influenced  his  whole  life.  His  father  had  failed,  (through  causes 
noted  in  his  history),  and  the  sheriff  was  selling  the  property;  among 
the  property  were  two  horses  which  had  been  highly  prized;  his 
mother  shed  tears  when  they  were  "bid  off."  Samuel  threw  his  arms 
around  his  mother's  neck,  saying,  that  he  would  be  a  man,  and  provide 
for  her.     In  after  life  he  kept  his  promise.     Samuel  was  the  youngest 


84  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

of  nine  children,  and  lived  at  Amenia  until  he  was  fourteen  years  of 
age,  and  had  to  commence  work  at  the  age  of  twelve.  His  father 
removed  to  Yates  County,  New  York,  in  1842,  and  rented  a  farm. 

Samuel  worked  with  him  until  they  had  saved  enough  money  to 
buy  a  farm  for  his  father,  in  Wayne  County,  New  York. 

Samuel  then,  with  his  brother  Henry,  rented  a  farm,  and  made 
fifteen  hundred  dollars,  they  then  bought  a  farm,  jointly,  in  Newark, 
Wayne  County,  New  York,  for  four  thousand  five  hundred  dollars, 
paying  the  fifteen  hundred  dollars  down. 

Samuel  then  rented  a  farm,  and  at  the  end  of  three  years  had  saved 
thirty-two  hundred  dollars.  He  then  went  to  Newark,  where  he 
worked  with  his  brothers,  on  their  farm,  and  traded,  in  a  small  way,  in 
live  stock,  in  Wayne  County.  He  went  to  New  York  and  Albany,  aud 
upon  his  return,  said  to  his  brother  Henry:  "  I  believe  I  know  as  much 
as  the  dealers  I  met,  and  I  think  my  services  are  worth  more  than  nine 
dollars  a  month,  and,  as  we  now  have  the  farm  paid  for,  and  three 
thousand  dollars  in  money,  I  will  settle  with  you,  you  taking  the  farm, 
and  I  taking  the  money."  His  brother  replied:  "If  you  continue  as 
you  are,  in  a  few  years  you  will  own  the  best  farm  in  this  country;  but 
if  you  wish  to  try  the  live  stock  trade,  all  right,  we  will  settle  on  this 
basis.  This  is  all  the  advice  I  have  to  give  you;  you  will  run  across 
smart  and  tricky  men,  but  they  always  die  poor — make  a  name  and 
character  for  yourself,  and  you  are  sure  to  win." 

The  first  hundred  cattle  Samuel  ever  bought,  he  sold  in  New  York 
City,  where  the  Fifth  Avenue  Bank  now  stands.  It  was  the  worst 
market  there  had  been  in  ten  years,  and  he  lost  seven  hundred  dollars. 
This  absolutely  made  him  sick,  for  he  got  his  money  together  in 
small  sums.  He  had  an  elderly  uncle,  who  had  made  a  success  in 
life,  who  said  to  him — "  my  boy  you  are  pretty  sick,  but  don't  lose 
your  courage.  I  never  found  but  one  dead  sure  thing,  and  that  was 
hoeing  corn  at  fifty  cents  a  day.  If  you  make  money,  you  must  some- 
times lose  it.     Try  it  over." 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  85 

Samuel  went  to  Erie.  Women  had  burned  down  bridges,  because 
trains  would  not  stop  for  dinner,  this  made  a  break  in  the  line,  and 
live  stock  had  to  be  unloaded  and  driven  to  Dunkirk,  at  which  place 
he  bought  one  hnndred  cattle,  shipped  them  over  the  Erie  R.  R., 
encountered  a  great  flood,  arrived  in  New  York,  and  found  the  market 
short  on  cattle.  This  venture  netted  him  three  thousand  dollars,  and 
gave  him  courage.  He  drifted  West,  and  for  the  first  year  fed  and 
raised  cattle  in  Illinois. 

Mr.  Sturgis  failed  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  national  financial 
system  was  so  weak  that  it  created  a  panic,  and  wiped  out  about  all 
Samuel  had.  He  became  sick,  concluded  he  could  not  stand  the  West- 
ern climate,  and  bought  an  interest  in  a  store  with  his  brother,  in 
Newark,  New  York.  Selling  goods  was  not  agreeable  to  him,  as  he 
desired  to  deal  on  a  larger  scale.  He  had  met  a  daughter  of  Astor  C. 
Thompson,  in  Fulton  County,  Illinois.  After  he  had  regained  his 
health,  he  gathered  together  what  money  he  had  left,  and  borrowed 
$5000,  and  started  West.  The  young  lady  was  the  principal  attrac- 
tion, he  went  directly  to  Fulton  County,  Illinois,  where  he  traded  a 
little.  He  came  to  Chicago  in  March,  1860,  and  was  married  on  July 
1st,  of  that  year,  to  Pamilla  W.  Thompson,  at  Peoria,  Illinois.  He 
settled  in  Chicago,  believing  that  Chicago,  "  where  the  world  turned 
around  every  twenty-four  hours"  was  the  proper  place  to  trade  in. 

He  commenced,  in  a  small  way,  to  buy  and  sell  live  stock.  There 
was  no  general  market  in  Chicago,  except  for  a  short  time  during  the 
winter.  Shippers  generally  took  their  live  stock  to  the  Eastern  markets. 
About  this  time  there  came  a  decided  break  in  the  Chicago  market. 
Samuel  desired  to  buy,  but  he  had  formed  no  connection  with  any 
bank  here,  and  the  question  was  how  to  get  the  money.  Among  his 
few  acquaintances  in  Chicago  was  a  gentleman  by  the  name  of  Tobey, 
whom  he  asked  to  take  him  to  a  bank,  and  identify  him.  Mr.  Tobey 
was  willing  to  do  so,  at  the  same  time  saying,  that  he  could  not  guar- 
antee anything.  Mr.  Allerton  said  that  he  only  desired  to  be  iden- 
tified, he  would  arrange  the  balance.     Mr.  Tobey  took  him  to  George 


86  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Smith's  bank,  a  bank  that  issued  Georgia  money,  and  furnished  the 
currency  for  the  great  North-west.  He  said  to  Mr.  Willard,  "If  I 
will  pay  for  three  telegrams,  one  to  Halstead,  Chaimberlain  &  Co., 
asking  if  they  will  pay  my  draft;  one  to  your  own  correspondent,  to 
ascertain  if  Halstead,  Chamberlain  &  Co.  are  all  right;  and  one  to  my 
own  bank  to  assure  you  that  I  am  all  right — can  I  come  down  to-mor- 
row and  sell  you  a  sight  draft?"  He  replied,  "Yes."  Mr.  Allerton  went 
back  to  the  Stock  Yards,  and  bought  all  the  hogs  in  the  market,  and 
went  down  with  a  draft  for  Eighty  Thousand  Dollars,  asking  Mr. 
Willard  if  he  had  received  replies  to  his  telegrams.  His  answer  was, 
that  he  had,  and  that  they  were  very  favorable.  Mr.  Allerton  handed 
him  the  draft.  Mr.  Willard  said  he  had  not  supposed  he  would  want 
more  than  five  thousand  dollars,  and  that  he  could  not  discount  so 
large  a  draft  on  telegrams.  Mr.  Allerton  said,  "You  know  Mr.  Tobey, 
you  do  not  think  he  would  introduce  a  thief  to  you?  Mr.  Willard 
would  not  discount  the  draft.  Allerton  found  himself  in  a  position 
where  he  must  have  the  money.  What  to  do  he  did  not  know  !  He 
accidentally  met  a  gentleman  from  Syracuse,  and  asked  him  if  he  was 
acquainted  with  any  banks  in  Chicago?  He  replied,  "Yes,  Aikens  & 
Norton."  He  took  Mr.  Allerton  to  them,  and  introduced  him.  Mr. 
Aikens  looked  over  the  telegrams,  and  signified  his  willingness  to 
comply  with  Mr.  Allerton' s  request,  but  said  he  would  have  to  charge 
one  per  cent.  In  this  way  Mr.  Allerton  became  a  customer  of  Aikens 
&  Norton.  The  Civil  War  broke  out.  The  nation  needed  money. 
Congress  passed  the  National  Bank  Act,  issuing  bonds  to  secure  the 
circulation.  This  was  a  step  in  the  right  direction  toward  a  National 
Currency,  as  the  nation  had  never  had  anything  but  Red  Dog  and 
Bob-tailed  currency;  and  to  start  a  National  Bank  would  aid  the  gov- 
ernment, and  give  the  people  a  uniform  currency,  because  the  nation 
was  back  of  it,  but  for  some  reason,  the  people  seemed  slow  to  start 
National  Banks.  Mr.  Allerton  asked  Mr.  Aikens  why  he  did  not  start 
a  National  Bank.  He  replied,  "  because  he  feared  he  could  not  get 
the  stock  taken."      Mr.  Allerton  said,  that  he,  with  five  other  men, 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  87 

would  take  ten  thousand  dollars  each.     In  this  way  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Chicago  was  started. 

Mr.  Allerton  wrote  the  first  letter  ever  published  in  the  Chicago 
Tribune  in  favor  of  organizing  a  Union  Stock  Yards,  so  as  to  bring 
all  buyers  and  sellers  together,  which  made  it  the  greatest  live-stock 
market  in  the  world,  and  also  made  Chicago  a  money  center.  He 
always  had  the  desire  to  own  a  farm,  when  he  succeeded  in  accumu- 
lating enough  money.  He  bought  land,  and  is  to-day  the  largest  far- 
mer in  this  country,  who  cultivates  his  land;  cultivating  about  forty 
thousand  acres,  in  the  very  best  manner.  He  loves  to  buy  land  that 
does  not  produce  anything,  and  make  it  bloom  and  blossom  like  a  rose. 
This  may  be  said  to  be  his  hobby. 

He  is  largely  interested  in  ranches,  and  gold  mines;  has  interests 
in  Dakota,  Nebraska,  Iowa,  Illinois,  Indiana,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  and 
New  York,  and  has  always  been  interested  in  the  live-stock  trade,  and 
continues  to  ship  live-stock  and  cattle  to  New  York  and  England.  In 
Farms,  Stock- Yards,  Street  Railroads,  are  his  principal  business 
interests. 

He  received  his  early  political  education  from  Henry  Clay  and 
Horace  Greeley  and  has  always  been  a  Republican. 

In  1844,  when  Henry  Clay  was  a  candidate  for  President,  the  issue 
was,  "shall  we  put  a  tariff  on  iron  and  inaugurate  free  schools."  The 
Democrats  said,  "a  tariff  would  build  up  home  monopolies  and  free 
schools  would  be  a  burden  and  a  tax  on  the  people."  Clay  replied, 
"give  the  people  free  schools  so  as  to  increase  their  intelligence,  their 
energy  and  industry,  and  home  competition  would  reduce  the  price  of 
iron,"  (it  being  then  one  hundred  dollars  a  ton).  Believing  the  free 
school  system  made  this  great  Nation,  and  remembering  the  words  of 
Clay,  Mr.  Allerton,  by  giving  the  land,  has  had  school  houses  built  on 
each  of  his  farms. 

He  is  a  firm  believer  in  an  proper  tariff  for  the  interest  of  our 
Nation.  Like  an  individual  man,  the  Nation  is  individual  and  no 
other  nation  will  take  care  of  it.     He  believes  that  this  Nation  should 


88  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

have  a  sound  currency,  as  good  as  the  bank  notes  of  England,  and 
which  should  be  good  in  every  nation  on  the  globe;  that  the  weakness 
of  the  National  financial  system  has  destroyed  the  character  of  many 
young  men  who  tried  to  better  their  condition  by  building  up  some 
industry,  and  who  lost  their  position  and   character  by  the  periodical 
panics;  that  a  great  Nation  of  free  people  should  have  brains  enough 
to  frame  a  financial  system  that  would  be  as  sound  as  the  Bank  of 
England.     He  believes  that  all  men  should  try  to  lead  a  successful 
life;  this  he  owes  to  himself,  his  friends  and  his  people.     The  success- 
ful  men    of   our  Nation  have  done  much  to  build  up    the  colleges, 
schools  and  hospitals,  from  which  the  public  has  received  a  large  ben- 
efit.    If  the  man  of  wealth  invests  his  money  and  promotes  industries 
that  give  employment  to  the  people,  he  is  a  public  benefactor.  There  has 
not  been  a  boy  born  in  a  hundred  years,  starting  out  in  life  right,  but 
who  could  gain  a  competency.     That  young  men  have  a  better  oppor- 
tunity now  than  when  he   was   a   boy;  have  better  teachers,  better 
schools;  labor  is  higher,  and  the  necessities  of  life  are  cheaper.     He 
once  ran  for  mayor  of  Chicago  in  the  interest  of  Civil  Service  with  no 
pledges  to  any  one,  only  as  a  good  citizen  to  do  his  duty;  as  there  was 
nothing  to  be  gained  as  mayor  except  to  leave  a  good  name  to  his  child- 
ren, and  to  give  the  city  an  honest,  clean  administration.   He  intended 
to  employ  the  best  engineers  in  the  country  to  settle  the  vexed  ques- 
tion of  engineering,  and,  in  all  departments  of  the  city  government, 
to  put  the  right  man  in  the  right  place,  irrespective  of  politics. 

He  carried  the  North  division  of  the  city,  and  the  other  intelligent 
wards,  but  was  beaten  by  a  sharp  political  trick  of  his  opponent, 
(Harrison).  The  Democratic  aldermen  used  their  influence  to  elect 
Republican  aldermen,  with  the  understanding  that  they  in  turn  would 
help  elect  a  Democratic  mayor. 

Children.     Born  in  Chicago^  Jllijtois. 
363   iKate  RennettS,  born  June  10,  1863;  m.,  first,  October  14,  1885, 
Dr.  Francis  Sydney  Papin,  who  afterward  died;  second, 
Hugo  R.  Johnstone. 


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364  2R0BERT  HE]!aiT9,  born  March  20,  1873. 

114  4 GEORGE  MILTON 8,  (Milton  B.'',  Reubens,  Isaac*,  John*, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac*,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Washington,  Dutchess  County,  New  York,  Dec- 
ember 1,  1831.  Married,  October  5,  1858,  Lois  Mabbett,  of  Dover, 
New  York.  Married  again,  January  24,  1877,  Mary  Alida  Leggett. 
He  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  rubber  goods  all  his  life,  being 
for  many  years  connected  with  the  Goodyear  India  Rubber  Glove 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  New  York  City  and  Naugatuck,  Conn. 
He  resided  at  New  York  City  until  1867,  when  he  removed  to  Nauga- 
tuck, and  resided  there  until  his  death,  December  2,  1882.  He  was  a 
man  of  great  ability  and  of  the  highest  character,  active  in  business 
and  society,  generous,  hospitable  and  public  spirited. 

Children.     Born  in  New  York  City. 

365  1  George   Milton^,   born   January   27,  1860;   ra.   Josephine   D. 

Webster. 

366  ^Charles  Goodyear^,  born  September  9,  1862. 

367  ^Louis  MoTT»,  born  February  11,  1865. 

Born  in  Naugatuck^  Conn. 

368  *Anna  Ogden9,  born  October  14,  1877. 

369  6R0BERT  Wade9,  born  August  14,  1882. 

175  6REUBEN  GERMANS,  (Miltgn  B.',  ReubenS,  Isaac^,  John*, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac*,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Dover  Plains,  Dutchess  County,  New  York, 
October  20,  1834.  Married,  September  19, 1866,  Henrietta  L.  Vreden- 
burgh,  daughter  of  Robert  M.  Vredenburgh,  of  New  York  City.  He 
resided  at  New  York  City  and  was  engaged  in  the  rubber  business 
with  his  brother.     He  was  a  famous  angler,  one  of  the  founders  of 


90  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

"The  Oquossoc  Club,"  of  the  Rangely  Lakes  in  Maine,  and  author  of 
a  work  on  Angling.     He  died  at  the  City  of  New  York,  June  18, 

1877. 

Children.     Born  in  New  York  City. 

370  ^Nettie  Fenton^,  born  February  4,  1868. 

371  ^Atherton^,  born  November  3,  1869. 

372  3Reuben9,  born  January  25,  1876. 

177  ^SAMUEL*,    (David',    Amos^,    Zachariah^,    Jesse*,    Isaac^, 

Isaac 2,  Isaac i). 

Born  in  Chester  County,  Pennsylvania,  June  8,  1814. 
Married,  October  5,  1837,  Amelia  Swope.  He  resided  at  Mapleton, 
Stark  County,  Ohio,  and  was  engaged  in  business  as  an  auctioneer, 
and  filled  many  local  offices.     He  died  at  Mapleton,  March  4,  1887. 

Children. 

373  1  Job  D.»,  born  September  4,  1838;  m.  Sarah  A,  Smith. 

374  ^Cordelia  A.^,   born   October    10,    1840,   at   Osnaburgh,  Stark 

County,  Ohio.     Died  February  24,  1843. 

375  'Andrew  0.»,  born  September  9,   1842,  at  Paris,  Stark  County, 

Ohio.  He  was  a  farmer  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Rebellion, 
when  he  enlisted  in  the  Union  Army,  and  was  killed  at 
Murfreesboro,  Tenn.,  November  30,  1864.  He  was  never 
married. 

376  *Clara  E.»,  born  February  5,  1845,  at  Osnaburgh,  Stark  County, 

Ohio;  m.,  June  1,  1871,  Wesley  Delap. 

377  6Samuel»,  born  March  26,  1847.    Died  August  12,  1847. 

378  6 Allen  W.»,  born  February  28,  1849;  m.  Alice  Wilson. 

379  "J Amos  ¥.»,  born  October  14,  1851;  m.  Mary  C.  Young. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  91 

187   i3jAMESS(DAvro^  AmosSZachariah^ Jesse*, IsAAc3,IsAAc2, 

ISAAC^). 

Born  in  Stark  County,  Ohio,  August  20,  1835.  Married, 
January  3,  185Y,  Elizabeth  Vanostan,  of  Stark  County,  who  died 
December  19,  1866.  Married,  second,  December  3,  1868,  Mary  A. 
Niewandcr,  also  of  Stark  County.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  resided  in 
Pike  Township,  Stark  County,  Ohio,  until  1871,  when  he  moved  to 
Barry  County,  Michigan,  and  settled  at  Nashville,  where  he  now 
resides. 

Children.     Born  in  Pike  Township,  Stark  County,  Ohio. 

380  iReuben^,  born  November  16,  1858. 

381  2FRANCIS  M.9,  born  August  16,  I860;  m.  Caroline  Carbaugh. 

382  3Alvira9,  born  February  27,  1864;  m.,  September  26,  1884,  Riley 

Holston,  of  Piatt  County,  Illinois.     Died  December  6, 
1886. 

383  *JoHN  A.9,  born  January  20,  1866.     Died  September  3,  1867. 

384  6Ada  A.9,  born  March  18,  1870. 

Born  at  Nashville,  Barry  County,  Michigan. 

385  6LoDEMA»,  born  August  16,  1880. 

386  ^Laura  W.9,  born  August  26,  1883. 

194  6ISAAC  CHAUNCEYS  (John',  AmosS  ZachariahS  Jesse*, 

IsAAC^,  IsAAC^,  Isaac;!). 

Born  at  Euclid,  Ohio,  April  10,  1827.  Married  in  1853, 
Fannie  Glines.  Married,  second,  in  1865,  Elvira  A.  Giddings.  He 
died,  July  5,  1885. 

Child. 

387  iChloe»,  born ;  m.  Simeon  Blocker. 


92  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

195  "OLIVER  HAZARD  PERRY^,  (John^  Amos«,  Zachariah^, 

Jesse*,  Isaac',  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Euclid,  Ohio,  March  30,  1829.  Married,  Decem- 
ber 26,  1852,  Harriet  Robertson.  He  moved  to  Wisconsin  when 
sixteen  years  old,  and  soon  after  became  a  carpenter  and  joiner.  Re- 
turning to  Ohio  in  1850,  he  worked  there  at  his  trade  a  few  years, 
when  he  again  went  to  Wisconsin,  and  opened  a  stove  at  Dayton,  at 
the  same  time  doing  business  as  a  builder  and  contractor.  In  1857  he 
gave  up  his  store,  and  from  then  until  1883,  he  resided  successively  at 
Leroy,  Aztalon  and  Eureka,  carrying  on  farming  at  each  place,  and 
continuing  his  business  as  a  builder.  In  1888,  he  again  opened  a 
store,  at  Berlin,  and  in  1887,  he  moved  to  Antigo,  Langlade  County, 
where  he  now  resides,  engaged  in  the  same  business. 

Children. 

388  ^Alvah*,   born  November   29,    1854,   at   Lake  Mills,   Jefferson 

County,  Wisconsin;  m.,  March  3,  1880,  Anna  A.  Nickle-    * 
son,     Died  November  23,  1880.     No  children. 

389  'Jasper   W.^,   born   April  30,  1857;   m.   Mrs.   Alvah   Allerton, 

widow  of  his  brother  Alvah. 

390  3EFriE»,  born  January  5,   1862,  at  Lake  Mills,  Wisconsin;   m., 

July  27,  1880,  Frank  H.  Fellows. 

391  *Herbert9,  born  November  7,  1864,  at  Lake  Mills,  Wisconsin. 

392  ^Fkeeling  C.%  born  January  4,  1867,  at  Lake  Mills,  Wisconsin. 


196  ''ALPHEUS  burtons,  (JoHN^  Amos",  ZachariahS,  Jesse*, 

Isaac',  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Euclid,  Ohio,  February  18,  1831.  Married  for 
his  first  wife,  October  16,  1852,  Amanda  Hoyt;  for  his  second  wife, 
September  8,  1862,  Ellen  P.  Palmer,  of  Allegany,  well  known  as  a 
writer  of  poems  of  some  merit.  He  was  by  occupation  a  farmer  and 
builder,  and  lived  from  boyhood  up  to  1879,  at  Lake  Mills,  Jefferson 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  93 

County,   Wisconsin,    and   in   that   year   moved    to   Hamlin,    Brown 
County,  Kansas,  where  he  now  resides. 

Children. 

393  ^EvA  M.^,  born  August  15,    1852,   at   Aztalon,  Wisconsin;  m., 

December  19,  1875,  Albert  E.  Jenks. 

394  *Attila  G.9,  born  February  3,  1859;  m.  Eudora  Burdick. 


204  *AMOS^,  (James"",  John^,  Zachakiah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac',  Isaac*, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  in  Stark  County,  Ohio,  March  7,  1823,  Married, 
about  1849,  Rebecca  Baum.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Huntington  County, 
Indiana.     Died  October  12,  1872. 

Children.     Born  at  Constaniine^  Michigan. 

395  ^James  W.®,  born  February  15,  1851;  m.  Margaret  Londorf. 

Born  at  Huntington,  Indiana. 

396  2Maby9,  born  November  24,  1853. 

397  'William  B.s,  born  September  27,  1855;  m.,  November  14,  1886, 

Kate  Burger,  of  Constantine,  Michigan.    Farmer,  resides 
at  Constantine. 

398  <David8,  born  May  19,  1858.    Lives  at  Aberdeen,  Brown  County, 

Dakota. 

399  5Ezekiel9,  born  May  19,  1858. 

400  6Ida9,  born  August  14,  1864. 

206  6JOHN8,  (James"",  JohnS,  Zachariah",  Jesse*,  Isaac',  Isaac^, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  in  Stark  County,  Ohio,  April  9,  1828.  Married, 
September  11,  1853,  Nancy  Peigh.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Stark  County, 
mitil  the  outbreak  of  the  Rebellion,  when  he  joined  the  Union  Army, 


94  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

and  died  of  disease  contracted  while  in  service,  at  Evansville,  Indiana, 
May  2,  1862. 

Children.     Born  in  Huntington  County.,  Indiana. 

401  iAsa9,  born  July  30,  1854;  m.  Sarah  Wiles. 

402  2Thkodork9,  born  September  23,  1856;  m.  Ida  Breiding. 

211  11EZEKIEL8,  (JamesS  John^,  Zaohabiah*,   Jesse*,  Isaac^, 

Isaac*,  Isaac^). 

Born  in  Stark  County,  Ohio,  April  22,  1839.  Married, 
January  1,  1865,  Margaret  Gibson.  When  nine  years  old  he  went 
with  his  parents  to  Huntington  County,  Indiana,  then  a  wilderness, 
and  has  resided  there  ever  since.  He  now  lives  at  Roanoke,  in  that 
county,  and  is  a  farmer  by  occupation. 
Children.     Born  in  Huntington  County,  Indiana. 

403  ^Martha^,  born  November  4,  1865. 

404  2Frank»,  born  April  8,  1868. 

212  1HIRAM8,  (John\  JohnC,  Zachariaii^,  Jesse*,  Isaao^,  Isaac*, 

Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Smithtown,  Mahoning  County,  Ohio,  May  18, 
1830.  Married,  September  17,  1854,  Lois  Bailer,  daughter  of  Peter 
Bailer,  of  Mahoning  County,  Ohio.  He  resides  at  Hartford,  Van 
Buren  County,  Michigan. 

Children. 

405  iDuANE  F.9,  born  June  20,  1858;  m.  Calista  E.  Fisher. 

406  2EvA«,  born  January  13,  1861,  at  Smithtown,  Mahoning  County, 

Ohio;  m.,  February  24,  1879,  Rollo  L.  Hill.     Lives  in 
Hartford,  Michigan. 

407  3Lelia9,  born  August  23,  1865,  at  Hector,  Van  Buren  County, 

Michigan;  m.,  November  20,  1882,  Samuel  S.  Granger. 
Lives  at  Hemingford,  Nebraska. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  '  95 

213  ^ANDREW  J.8,  (JoHN^  John6,  ZachariahS,  Jesse*,  Isaac^, 

Isaac*,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Smithtown,  Ohio,  May  21,  1831.  Married, 
October  22,  185Y,  Martha  Babcock,  daughter  of  Isaac  Babcock,  of 
Providence,  Wood  County,  Ohio.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  at 
Keelersville,  Van  Buren  County,  Michigan. 

Children. 

408  iCuETis  0.9,  born  August  19,  1858;  m.  Libbie  Erwin, 

409  2Ella  E.9,  born  September  16,  1862,  at  Smithtown,  Ohio;  m. 

Turner,  of  Grands  Rapids,  Michigan. 

410  ^Charles  B.«,  born  October  5,  1867,  at  Keelersville,  Michigan. 

411  *WiLLiAM  F. 9,  born  September  11,  18V0,  at  Hartford  Michigan. 

217  6WILLIAM  H.8,  (John',  Johns  Zachariah8,  Jesse*,  Isaac^, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Smithtown,  Stark  County,  Ohio,  February  10, 
1841.  Married  October  30,  1868,  Amelia  Scranton,  of  Lexington, 
Stark  County,  Ohio.  He  served  in  the  Union  Army,  and  was  taken 
prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Stone  River,  and  confined  for  a  time  in  Libby 
Prison.     He  is  now  a  manufacturer  of  brick,  at  Alliance,  Ohio. 

Children.     Born  at  Alliance^  Ohio. 

412  iNellie  0.9,  born  May  16,  1870. 

413  2Laura  B.9,  born  August  15,  1872. 

414  3Louis9,  born  June  12,  1874. 

219  8JOHN8,  (John'^,  John^,  Zachariah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac*, 

Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Smithtown,  Ohio,  September  20,  1845.  Married, 
April  18,  1877,  Fannie  E.  Hanson.  He  resided  at  Smithtown  until 
1870,  when  he  removed  to  Hartford,  Van  Buren  County,  Michigan, 


96  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

where   he  now  lives.     He  is  a  manufacturer  of   pumps,  and  also   a 
mover  of  buildings. 

Children.     Born  at  Hartford,  Van  Bureti  County,  Michigan. 

415  ^Blanches,  born  March  10,  1878. 

416  ^Clara*,  born  September  13,  1880. 

417  ^Howards,  born  July  23,  1882. 

418  <George^  born  June  4,  1884. 

419  6Effie9,  born  March  30,  1886. 

420  6 9^  ]3orn  March  2,  1888. 

220  8FRANCIS8,    (JohnT,    JohnS,    ZachariahS,    Jesse*,   Isaac^, 

ISAAC^,  ISAAC^). 

Born  at  Smithtown,  Ohio,  February  28,  1848.  Married, 
October  24,  1872,  Henrietta  Oby,  daughter  of  Joseph  Oby,  of  Alliance, 
Ohio.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  at  Keelersville,  Van  Buren  County, 
Michigan. 

Children. 

421  'Lura  MaudO,  born  March  31, 1874,  at  Lexington,  Stark  County, 

Ohio. 

422  ^OscAR  Raymond^,  born  April  24,  1876,  at  Alliance,  Ohio. 

423  3  Walter  Mellville*,  born  April  5,  1878,  at  Alliance,  Ohio. 

424  *Earl  Wayne^,  born  March  6,  1881,  at  Alliance,  Ohio. 

425  "Warren  Elsworth^,  born  December  29,  1882,  at  Lexington, 

Ohio. 

426  ^AcEL  Howard^,  born  April  2,  1884,  at  Chase  City,  Virginia. 

427  ''LiONNE  May9,  born  June  23,  1887,  at  Hartford,  Michigan. 


229   ^IRA^,   (John   L.'^,   Stephen^,    Zachariah^,    Jesse*,    Isaac^, 
IsAAC^,  Isaac'). 
Born  at  Coitsville,  Ohio,  December  15,  1837.     Married, 


"€^1 


Ida  May  Allertox. 

(498.) 


THE   ALLERTON    FAMILY.  97 

November  28,  1886,  Mary  A.  Hoagg,  daughter  of  Samuel  G.  Hoagg, 
of  Canandaigua,  New  York.  He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  at  Roxana, 
Eaton  County,  Michigan. 

Childreyi.     Born  at  Bellevue,  Eaton  Cotmty^  Michigan. 

428  1  Hannah  Esther^,  born  May  26,  1868.     Died,  infant. 

429  8  Warren  W.^,  born  June  9,  1869.     Died,  infant. 

430  ^  Child ^,  born .     Died  unnamed, 

232  »JOHN^,  (John  L.''',  Stephen^,  Zachariah^,  Jesse^,  Isaac^, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Coitsville,  Ohio,  August  17,  1844.  Married, 
November  9,  1868,  Amanda  Campbell,  of  Kalamo,  Michigan.  He  was 
of  a  roving  disposition,  and  while  in  a  lumber  camp  in  Northern 
Michigan,  in  the  winter  of  1881-2,  he  was  accidentally  killed. 

Children. 

431  iClaud  L.8,  born  May  18,  1870. 

432  2  Jennie  S.^  born  September  25,  1871. 

433  ^Herbert  L. »,  born  January  17,  1878. 

233  ^OLIVER  H.8,    (James'',   Job^,   Zachariah^,   Jesse^,   Isaac^, 

IsAAc^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Deerfield,  Portage  County,  Ohio,  May  25,  1825. 
Married,  August  20,  1848,  Sarah  McCoy.  He  resided  for  a  time  at 
Angola,  Steuben  County,  Indiana,  and  at  East  Fairfield,  Columbiana 
County,  Ohio,  but  was  of  a  roving  disposition  and  eventually  went  to 
California,  where  it  is  supposed  that  he  died. 

Children. 

434  1  William  1.%  born  July  29,  1850,  at  Poland,  Ohio.     Died  July 

3,  1880. 


98  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

435  2WELTHA  Ann»,  born  February  20,  1852,  at  East  Fairfield,  Col- 

umbiana County,  Ohio;    m,   Robert   Rheard,  of  Akron, 
Ohio. 

436  ^WiNFiELD  ScoTT^,  born  March  8,  1854,  at  East  Fairfield,  Ohio; 

*    m.,  Aj^ril  16,  1884,  Kittie   Lynch,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
He  is  a  machinist,  and  resides  at  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

239  2SAMUEL^(Samdel'',  Job6,Zachariah5,  Jesse4,Isaac3,Isaac2, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  at  Waynesburgh,  Ohio,  September  9,  1827.  Mar- 
ried, August  12,  1852,  Jane  G.  Mitchner.  Was  engaged  in  many  kinds 
of  business,  principally  in  connection  with  the  coal  and  iron  trade, 
and  resided  nearly  all  his  life  at  Salem,  Ohio.  Died  at  Salem,  Dec- 
ember 9,  1879. 

Children. 

437  iJoHN  W.**,  born  December  5,  1853,  at  Alliance,  Ohio.     Died, 

October  17,  1854. 

438  2Mary  E.^  born  December  15,  1854,  at  Mt.  Union,  Ohio.     Is 

unmarried  and  resides  at  Philadelphia,  Penn. 

439  ^Emma  A.»,  born  November  16,    1856,   at  Cleveland,  Ohio;  m., 

April  27,  1882,   L.  G.    Logue.     Resides   at  Pittsburgh, 
Penn. 

440  <Cora9,  i^orn  October  13,'  1858.     Died  in  infancy. 

441  5Alice%  born  July  8,  1860.     Died  in  infancy. 

442  6 Hannah  M.^,  born  April  20,  1861,  at  Alliance,  Ohio;  m.,  June 

19,  1883,  Charles  E.  Buttolph.     Resides  at  Mt.  Union, 
Stark  County,  Ohio. 

443  "Rachel  C.^,  born  January  3,  1864,  at  Alliance,  Ohio;  m.,  October 

23,  1884,  John  W.  Way.     Resides  at  Salem,  Ohio. 

444  ^Samuel  Ellsworth^,  born  October  10,  1866,  at  Massillon,  Ohio. 

445  ^Percy  P.»,  born  June  24,  1868,  at  Massillon,  Ohio.     Died  at 

Salem,  Ohio,  March  8,  1877. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  99 

240  3ZACHARIAI18,  (Samuel'',  Job^,  Zachariah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac^ 

ISAAC^,  ISAAC^). 

Born  at  Waynesburgh,  Ohio,  April  14,  1829.  Married, 
in  April,  1852,  Sarali  Hartzell.  Married  again,  January  9,  1881,  Eva 
Partello,  He  served  in  the  Union  Army  during  the  Rebellion,  and  is 
now  in  the  National  Soldiers'  Home,  at  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Children.     Born  at  A/lia?ice,  Ohio. 
446    ^WiLLiAM^,  born  January  24,  1853.     Died  August  5,  1853. 
44Y   2John9,  born  February  15,  1855.     Died  February  10,  1856. 

448  ^ Edward^,  born  January  22,  1858. 

449  *Frank9,  born  June  6,  1860.     Died  November,  1872. 

Borti  at  Princeton,  Indiana. 

450  ^Mary^,  born  July  12,  1863;  m.,  December  15,  1876,  John  Bees- 

ler,  of  Alliance,  Ohio. 

Born  at  Clevelatid,  Ohio. 

451  ''Charles^,  born  April  8,  1869.     Died  November,  1872. 

452  ''James^,  born  May  9,  1871.     Died  November,  1872. 

242  ^WILLIAMS,    (Samuel'',   Job^,   Zachariah^,    Jesse*,    Isaac^, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  at  Waynesburgh,  Ohio,  December  13,  1832.  Mar- 
ried, December  31,  1854,  Elizabeth  McKee.  He  is  a  painter  and 
machinist,  and  resides  at  New  Castle,  Lawrence  County,  Penn. 

Childrefi. 

453  iHenrietta^,  born  June  1,  1856,  at  Alliance,  Ohio;  m.  David 

Carson,  of  New  Castle,  Pennsylvania. 

454  ^LucRETiA^,  born  September  18,  1857,  at  Pomeroy,  Ohio;  m,  J. 

T.  McKee,  of  New  Lisbon,  Ohio. 

455  ^JoHN  A.^,  born   March    4,    1860,    at   Pomeroy,  Ohio.     He  is  a 

machinist,  and  resides  at  New  Castle,  Lawrence  County, 
Pennsylvania. 


100  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

456  <Flora  B.9,  born  February  10,  1863,  at  Pomeroy,  Ohio.     She  is 

unmarried,  and  resides  with  her  parents. 

457  ^Benjamin  F.^,  born  January  10,  1865,  at  Jeffersonville,  Ohio. 

458  *WiLLiAM^,  born  at  Mt.  Carmel,  Illinois.     Died  in  infancy. 

459  ''DoKA^,  born  August  8,  1874,  at  Princeton,  Indiana. 

460  ^Claud^,  born  August  8,  1874,  at  Princeton,  Indiana. 

461  ^Zachariah^,  born  June,  1876,  at  Princeton,  Indiana. 

243  "ENOCH^,  (Samuel'',  Job^,  Zachakiah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  at  Waynesburgh,  Ohio,  June  16,  1835,  Married, 
in  1856,  Mary  Knapp.     Died  at  Cincinnatti,  December  16,  1866. 

Child. 

462  ^Florence',  born  at  Cincinnatti,  Ohio.     Died,  infant. 

249  1 2  IS  A  AC  ^,  (Samuel^,  Job^,  Zachariah^,  Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^, 

Isaac  ^). 

Born  in  Carroll  County,  Ohio,  November  23,  1850.  Mar- 
ried, September  27,  1877,  Susan  McLaughlin.  He  is  a  carpenter  and 
builder,  and  resides  at  Dell  Roy,  Carroll  County,  Ohio. 

Children.     Born  at  Dell  Boy,  Ohio. 

463  iMary  Bell9,  born  May  21,  1878.     Died  May  13,  1879. 

464  sLuLu  V.9,  born  March  1,  1880.     Died  May  23,  1882. 

465  3Allen9,  born  March  1,  1882. 

466  *DoRA  Jane*,  born  November  13,  1884. 

467  5Clide9,  born  May  5,  1887. 


TENTH   GENERATION. 


259  iRANSOM    WELCH9,    (William  C-S   Joshua^,    JonathanB, 

Isaac'',    John*,    Isaac^,    Isaac^,   Isaac^). 

Born  at  Greenville,  Greene  County,  New  York,  December 
2,  1840.  Married  February  3,  1863,  Letitia  Betts.  He  is  a  farmer, 
and  now  resides  at  Gay  Head,  Greene  County,  New  York. 

Children.    Born  at  Gay  Head,  Greene  County.,  New  York. 

468  lEsTHER  JaneIo,  born  July  10,  1865. 

469  sElbeet  C.i »,  born  April  7,  1869. 

470  3WiLLiA3i  F. '»,  born  January  11,  1879. 

260  ^LEONARD  GREEN^,   (William  C.s,  Joshua',   Jonathan*, 

IsAAC^,  John*,  Isaac^,   Isaac^,   IsaacI). 

Born  at  Greenville,  Greene  County,  New  York,  June  11, 
1845.  Married,  January  9,  1867,  Mary  Stephens.  He  is  a  farmer, 
and  resides  at  Gay  Head,  Greene  County,  New  York.  During  the 
war  of  the  Rebellion  he  served  in  the  Union  army,  from  the  beginning 
of  the  struggle  to  its  close,  having  enlisted  when  only  nineteen. 

Children.     Born  at  Gay  Head,  Greene  County.,  New  York. 

471  ^Charles  German^"^  born  November  11,  1869. 

472  2JASPER  M.io,  born  September  17,  1874. 


102  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

266  nVILLIAM  MYRON^,    (William  C.%   Joshua^    Jonathan^, 

ISAAC^,  JOIIX*,  ISAAC^,  ISAAC^,  ISAAC'). 

Born  at  Cairo,  Greene  County,  New  York,  December  21, 
1855.  Married,  December  13,  1882,  Hannah  Hoge.  He  is  a  farmer, 
and  resides  at  Sheridan,  Sheridan  County,  Kansas. 

Children.     Born  at  Wenona,  Marshall  County,  Illinois. 

473  1  Frank  MeadIo,  born  September  17,  1883. 

474  ^Raymond  G.^",  born  February  21,  1885. 

275  "FRANK  C.^  (TowNSEND*',  Isaac'',  Jonathan*',  Lsaac^,  John*, 

Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Is.vac'). 

Born  in  Steuben  County,  January  13,  1855.  Married 
May  13,  1877,  Emma  CoUson,  of  Thurston,  Steuben  County,  New 
York.     He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  at  Thurston. 

Children.     Born  at  Thurston,  Steuben  Coufity,  Neiv  York. 
41  o   iGraceIo,  born  March   17,   1878. 

476  2Maudi»,  born  May  4,  1881. 

477  sAnnaI",  born  March   29,   1883. 

478  40tta1%  born  October  12,   1887. 

287  ^FREDERICK  WOODWORTH^,  (John   T.^,   Isaac%    Jona- 
than^, Isaac^,  John*,  Isaac',  Isaac^,  Isaac'). 
Born  at  Covert,  Seneca  County,  New  York,  April  9,  1856. 

Married  June  9,  1885,  Jennie  Guthrie,  of  Elk  Rapids,  Michigan.     He 

is  associated  in  business  with  his  brother  Huron,  and  resides  at  Man- 

celona,  Michigan. 

Child. 

479  iEllen  C.i»,  born  March   12,  1886.     Died  September  12,  1886. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  103 

291   2FRANK    H.»,    (George   C.^,    Reuben'',   Jonathan^,   Isaac^, 

JOHN^,  ISAAC^,  ISAAC^,  TsAACl). 

Born  September  21,  1849,  at  Waterloo,  New  York. 
Married  August  21,  181S,  Alice  T.  Hoffman,  of  Elmira,  New  York. 
Resided  at  Elmira,  until  1885.  He  now  keeps  a  general  store  at 
Painted  Post,  New  York. 

C/ii/d. 

480   'Frederick  P.*",   born  March  5,  1875,  at   Elmira,   New  York. 
Died    August    11,   1875. 


296  6GE0RGE  WASHINGTON^,   (George  W.s,  Archibald  M.\ 
David^,  Isaac^,  John'*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 
Born    at   New   York    City,   March    17,    1843.     Married, 

February  1,  1866,  Elizabeth  R.  Judd,  daughter  of  William  Judd,  of 

Kent,  Connecticut.     He  is  now  the  proprietor  of    a  cattle  ranch    at 

Albright,  Custer   County,  Montana. 

Children.     Born  at  New  York  City. 

481  ^Bessie  LouiseI",  born  March  5,  1867. 

482  2Henry  Read^o,  born  January  20,  1869. 

483  ^Charlotte  FishI",  born  May  8,  1871. 

484  *  Alice  Judd^o,  born  April  20,  1873.     Died  December  9,  1879. 

Born  at  Brooklyn.^  New  York. 

485  ^Mary  Greenwood^",  born  June  23,  1881. 

486  "George  Washington!  ",  born  July  28,  1883. 

300  9DAVID  DYCKMANS  (George  W.s,  Archibald  M.^  DavidS 
Isaac •%  John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac 2,  Isaac ^j. 
Born  at  New  York  City,  May  29,  1853.      Married,   July 

28,  1886,  Mary  Emma  Matthews,  daughter  of  William  S.  Matthews, 


104  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

of  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey.     He  is  now  in  the  grain  elevating  busi- 
ness, and  resides  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey. 

Child. 

487  iFrank  M.io,   born   July  1,  1887,  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey. 
Died  December  20,  1887. 


314  3 DAVID 9,    (Davids,  Archibald   M.%  David ^  Isaac S  John*, 

ISAAC^,  ISAAC^,  ISAAC^). 

Born  at  the  City  of  New  York,  July  3,  1851.  Married, 
September  25,  1879,  Matilda  Christine  Salisbury,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Salisbury,  of  London,  England.  He  is  a  fruit  farmer,  and  resides  at 
Marlborough,  Ulster  County,  New  York. 

Children.     Born  at  Yonkers,  New  York. 

488  1  Julia  ButlebIo,  born  July  3,  1880.     Died  August  9,  1881. 

Born  at  Wethers  field.,  Confi. 

489  ^Esther  HurdIo,  born  March  24,  1882. 

490  ^DavidIo,  born  September  6,  1883. 

491  ^Frederick  Salisbury^",  born  December  12,  1884. 


315  ^WALTER  SCOTTS   (DavidS  Archibald^  David^  IsaacS 

John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  the  City  of  New  York,  October  4,  1852.  Married, 
January  24,  1884,  Adelaide  L.  Hersom,  daughter  of  Andrew  J.  Her- 
som,  of  Berwick,  York  County,  Maine.  He  graduated  from  Columbia 
College  in  1874,  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Chicago  and  Northwestern 
Railway  Company,  at  Chicago  in  1875,  returned  to  New  York  in  the 
winter  of  that  year  and  began  the  study  of  law,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1877,  at  Poughkeepsie,  New  York.  Is  now  a  practicing 
lawyer  in  New  York  City,  and  resides  at  Mt.  Vernon,  Westchester 


Walter  Scott  Allerton. 
(315.) 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  105 

County,  New  York.  He  has  always  taken  a  great  interest  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  Allerton  family,  and  is  the  author  of  the  edition  printed 
in  1888. 

In  1893  he  was  elected  a  School  Commissioner  for  Westchester 
County,  New  York,  and  was  re-elected  in  1896.  In  1899  he  was  a 
candidate  for  member  of  the  legislature  of  New  York,  but  was  not 
successful.  In  1894  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Society  of 
Mayflower  Descendants,  was  a  delegate  to  the  Congress  at  Plymouth, 
Massachusetts,  that  resulted  in  the  union  of  all  the  State  Societies. 
He  has  been  one  of  the  officers  of  the  New  York  State  Society  ever 
since  it  was  founded. 

Child. 

492   1  Adelaide  HeesomI",  born   November    19,  1884,  at  Brooklyn, 
New  York. 


316  6RUFUS  KINGS  (David«,  Archibald   M.^   DavidS    Isaac^, 

John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac",  Isaac^). 

Born  at  the  City  of  New  York,  October  1,  1854.  Mar- 
ried, June  IT,  1882,  Lavinia  Irish,  daughter  of  Samuel  Knight  Irish, 
of  Warboys,  Huntingdonshire,  England.  He  was  for  several  years  a 
stock  and  mining  broker  in  New  York  City,  and  made  several  trips  to 
England,  where  he  was  married.  Is  now  a  farmer,  and  resides  at 
Whitneys  Point,  Broome  County,  New  York. 

Child. 

493   iRuFUS  KingIo,  born  June  6,  1883,  at  Whitneys  Point,  Broome 
County,  New  York. 


330  nVILLIAM  H.9  (Horace  W.8,  Isaacs  David6,  Isaacs  John*, 

ISAAC^,     ISAAC^,    IsAAC^). 

Born  at  Deer  Park,  October  IV,  1858.     Married,  Septem- 


lOG  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

ber  24,  1884,  Antoinette  Stidd.     He  is  a  photographer,  and  resides  at 
Port  Jervis, 

Child. 

494  iEthelIo,  born  April  26,  1886,  at  Port  Jervis,  New  York. 

336  6GE0RGE  OLIVERS   (James   M.s,   IsaacS    David^   IsaacS 

John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaacs). 

Born  at  Deer  Park,  May  30,  1858.  Married,  February 
22,  1880,  Sarah  Harding.  He  is  a  railroad  employee,  and  resides  at 
Port  Jervis,  New  York. 

Child. 

495  1  James  M.'",  born  May  1,  1881,  at  Port  Jervis,  New  York. 

344  3HIRAM  REUBENS  (Isaac »,  Isaac ^  David «,  IsaacS  Joiix*, 

IsAAc^,  IsAAc^,  Isaac'). 

Born  at  Osborn  Hollow,  Broome  County,  New  York,  Sep- 
tember 1,  1856.  Married,  August  11,  1880,  Elizabeth  Stone.  He  is  a 
farmer,  and  resides  at  North  Fenton,  Broome  County,  New  York. 

Children.     Born  at  North  Fenton.^  Broome  County,  New  York. 

496  iMiLLER  S.i",  born  August  16,  1881. 

497  sHiRAM  Lewis's   ^l^orn  February  9,  1884. 

360  2  0RVILLE  IIURDS  (Orville  H.S  Sa^iuei.  W-S  Reuben S 
Isaacs  John*,  IsaacS  IsaacS  Isaac'). 
Born  October  3,  1851,  at  Newark,  New  York.  Married, 
June  3,  1874,  Ida  C.  Leggett,  daughter  of  John  T.  Leggett,  of 
Newark.  He  was  educated  in  the  Newark  academy  and  in  business 
schools  at  Poughkeepsie  and  Elmira.  From  1873  to  1884  he  was 
engaged  in  the  business  of  shipping  live  stock  from  Western  points 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  107 

to  New  York,  and  in  the  latter  year  he  succeeded  his  father  as  live 
stock  agent  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad.  In  the  summer  of  1886  he 
made  a  tricycle  tour  through  Scotland,  England,  Wales  and  France. 
He  now  resides  at  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania. 

Childrefi.     Born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pemisylvania. 

498  iIda  MayIo,  born  April  1*7,  1882. 

499  2Edith  MarirIo,  born  January  11,  1887. 


365  1  GEORGE  MILTON »,    (George  M.^,   Milton  B.-",   Reuben  e, 

IsAAC^,  John*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaacs). 

Bom  at  New  York  City.  January  27,  1860.  Married, 
June  20,  1883,  Josephine  D.  Webster,  daughter  of  Judge  J.  W.  W^eb- 
ster,  of  Waterbury,  Conn.  He  has  been  connected  all  his  life  with 
the  rubber  manufacturing  business,  and  resides  at  Waterbury,  Conn. 

Children. 

500  ^Elsie  WebsterIo,  born  April  13,  1884,  at  Naugatuck,  Conn. 

501  sLois  MabbettI",  born  March  12,  1886,  at  Waterbury,  Conn. 

502  ^George  MiltonI",  born  May  31,  1888,  at  Waterbury,  Conn. 

373  MOB  D.9,    (Samuel^    David'',    Ajios^    ZaciiariaxiS    Jesse*, 

IsAAC^,  IsAAC^,  Isaac'). 

Born  in  Sandy  Township,  Stark  County,  Ohio,  September 
4,  1838.  Married,  March  12,  1863,  Sarah  A.  Smith.  In  1866  he  moved 
to  Indiana,  and  became  a  farmer,  but  afterwards  was  ordained  a  min- 
ister of  the  Baptist  Church,  and  is  now  located  atMentone,  Kosciusko 
County,  Indiana. 

Child. 

503  iClaraI",    born    March,    1864,    at  New    Berlin,    Stark    County, 

Ohio. 


108  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

378  6ALLEN  W.9,  (Samuels,  David',  AmosS  Zachariah^,  Jesse*, 

[SAAC^,  ISAAC^,  ISAAC^). 

Born  at  Uniontown,  Stark  County,  Ohio,  February  28, 
1849.  Married,  October  2,  1875,  Alice  Wilson.  He  is  a  painter,  and 
resides  in  Sandy  Township,  Stark  County,  Ohio. 

Childreti.     Borti  in  Sandy  Townships  Stark  County^  Ohio. 

504  iCharles  C.io,  born  July  24,  1876. 

505  ^Edward  E.io,  born  November  9,  1878. 

506  ^LucRETiA^o,  born  October  2,  1881. 

379  ■'AMOS  V.9,  (Samuel^,   David'',   Amos^,   ZachariahS,   Jesse*, 

Isaac',  Isaac^,  Isaac i). 

Born  October  14,  1851,  at  Maj^leton,  Stark  County,  Ohio. 
Married,  February  26,  1873,  Mary  C.  Young.  He  is  a  mason  and 
builder,  and  also  an  auctioneer,  and  resides  at  Osnaburgh,  Stark 
County,  Ohio. 

Children.     Born  at  Osnaburgh^  Stark  County^  Ohio. 

507  1  Amelia  Alice^",  born  October  1,  1873. 

508  2  Warren  WalterI",  born  February  23,  1875. 

509  ^Gertrude  Grove^o,  born  May  9,  1877. 

510  *LucmDA  Leora^",  born  November  18,  1879. 

511  ^SusAN  Cordelia^",  born  February  27,  1881.     Died  in  infancy. 

512  ''Bessie  Beatrice^o,  born  May  11,  1883. 

513  ''Samuel  SidneyIo,  born  October  21,  1886. 

381   1  FRANCIS  M.9,  (James«,  David •^,  AmosSZachariah*,  Jesse*, 

Isaac',  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  August  16, 1860,  in  Pike  Township,  Ohio.  Married 
September  19,    1884,  Caroline  Carbaugh,   of   Orange,  Ionia  County, 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  109 

Michigan.     He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  in  Castleton  Township,  Barry 
County,  Michigan. 

Child. 

514  iEthelio,    born   February   20,    1888,   in    Castleton    Township, 

Barry  County,  Michigan. 

389  2JASPER  W.9,  (Oliver  H.  P.s,  John'',   Amos«,   ZachaeiahS, 

Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaacs). 

Born  in  Waupaca  County,  Wisconsin,  April  30,  1857. 
Married  November  26,  1881,  Anna  A.  Nickelson,  widow  of  his 
brother  Alvah.  He  is  a  carpenter  and  joiner,  and  resides  at  Eureka, 
Winnebago  County,  Wisconsin. 

Children. 

515  iHattie  F.i«,  born  October  10,  1883,  at  Rushford,  Wisconsin. 
616  ^Willis  Leigh^",  born  October  31,  1885,  at  Eureka,  Wisconsin. 

517  3Yolney1o,  born  September  26,  1887,  at  Eureka,  Wisconsin. 

394  2ATTILA  G.^    (Alpheus    B.s,    John'',     AmosS    ZachakiahS 

Jesse*,  Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  at  Dayton,  Wisconsin,  February  3,  1859.  Married, 
September  25,  1882,  Eudora  Burdick.  Resides  at  Hamelin,  Browne 
County,  Kansas,  and  is  a  farmer  and  bi'eeder  of  live  stock. 

Child. 

518  ^Frederick  Russell^o^  bom   January    18,    1883,   at    Hamelin, 

Browne  County,  Kansas. 

395  1  JAMES  W.9,  (Amos^,   James',    JohnS    Zachariah^,   Jesse*, 

IsAAC^,  IsAAC^,  Isaac  1). 

Born   February    15,    1851,    at   Constantine,   St.    Joseph 


110  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

County,   Michigan.     Married,   October   3,    1875,   Margaret   Londorf. 
He  is  a  farmer,  and  resides  at  Constantine. 

Children. 

519  iDaisyIo,  born  August  1,  1876,  at  Huntington,  Michigan. 

520  sMiNNiEi",  born  January  2,  1878,  in  Cass  County,  Michigan. 

401  1ASA9,  (Johns,   James'',  John",   ZachariahS,    Jesse",   Isaac^, 

IsAAC^,  Isaac  1). 

Born  July  30,  1854,  in  Huntington  County,  Indiana. 
Married  October  15,  1879,  Sarah  Wiles.  Resides  at  Andrews,  Hunt- 
ington County,  Indiana. 

Childre?i.     Born  in  Hujitington  County,  India7ia. 

521  ^Emma  A.^%  born  July  10,   1880. 

522  2Henry'o,  born  September  6,  1883. 

523  3Fay1o,  born  June  23,  1886. 

524  "FernIo,  born  June  23,  1886. 

402  2THEODORE9,  (John^,  James%  JohnS  ZachariarS,  Jesse*, 

Isaacs,   Isaac 2,  Isaac i). 

Born  in  Huntington  County,  Indiana,  September  23, 1856. 
Married,  January  7,  1882,  Ida  Brieding,  daughter  of  Henry  Brieding, 
of  New  Orleans.  He  traveled  through  the  west  and  south-west 
while  quite  young,  and  finally  settled  at  New  Orleans,  and  became 
a  manufacturer  of  boots  and  shoes.     He  now  resides  in  that  city. 

Children.     Born  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

525  1  William!  0,  born  October  19,  1882. 

526  2 Henrietta  10,  born  March  16,  1885. 

527  3 10^  born  July  26,  1887. 


/ 


Edith  Marie  Allertox. 
(499.) 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  Ill 

405  iDUANE   F.»,    (HiRAM^,  John'',  John^,   Zachariah^,   Jesse*, 

ISAAC^,  ISAAC^,  ISAAC^). 

Born  at  Van  Buren,  Hancock  County,  Ohio,  June  20, 
1858.  Married,  July  4,  1879,  Calista  E.  Fisher.  He  resides  at  present 
at  Hartford,  Michigan. 

Child. 

528  iWanzer  D.io,  born  March  18,  1881,  at  Keelersville,  Michigan. 

408  1  CURTIS  0.»,  (Andrew  J. 8,  John'',  John6,Zachakiah5,  Jesse*, 

Isaac^,  Isaac^,  Isaac^). 

Born  August  19,  1858,  at  Arcadia,  Hancock  County, 
Ohio.  Married,  May  23,  1882,  Libbie  Erwin,  of  Hartford,  Michigan. 
He  is  a  carpenter  and  joiner,  and  resides  at  Benton  Harbor, 
Michigan. 

Child. 

429   1  Henry  W.i«,  born  December  17,  1883,  at  Keelersville,  Mich- 
igan. 


ALLERTONS    IN    THE  UNITED   STATES 

Not  Descendants  of  Isaac^ . 

530  1  WILLIAM  ALLERTONi,  born  at  Birmingham,  England,  June 

8,  1801.  He  is  believed  to  be  a  descendant  of  Barthol- 
omew^, the  eldest  son  of  Isaac^,  and  came  to  Massachusetts  in  1815. 
He  married,  September  23,  1822,  Ruth  Cutler  Thomas,  of  Province- 
town,  Massachusetts,  where  he  lived,  and  his  children  were  born  to 
him  there.  He  died  in  Gloucester,  April  13,  1880.  He  was  a  ship 
builder  by  trade. 

Children.     Born  in  Provinceiown,  Massachusetts. 

531  iCabgline^,  born  November  7, 1823.     Died  March  9,  1838. 

532  ^Orsamus  Thomas^,  born  August  1*7,  1825;  m.  Louisa . 

533  ^Experience  Parker^,  born  October  6,  1828. 

534  ^Abigail  Beals^,  born  December  4,  1830. 

535  sRuTH  HmcKXEY^,  born  August  20,  1833.     Died  December  IV, 

1844. 

536  ^Elizabeth  Scott^,  born  June  25,  1836.     Died  April  28,  1879. 

537  ''William  James^,  born  July  10,  1838.    Died  November  12, 1838. 

538  ^Cargline^,  twin  sister  of  William  J.    Died  December  1,  1838. 

539  »Mary  Carolines,  born  June  20, 1839.   Died  December  24,  1865. 

540  !<•  William  J. 2,  born  April,  1842.     Died  in  infancy. 

541  iiRuTH  B. 2,  born  February  7,  1845.     Died  April  10,  1887. 

542  i2William2,  born  July  14,  1848. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  113 

532  2  0RSAMTJS  THOMAS 2,  born  at  Provincetown,  Massachusetts, 
August  17,  1825.  Married,  July  17,  1853,  Louisa  L. 
Perliam,  who  died  in  1857;  married  again,  November  9,  1861,  Louisa 
Wonson.  Like  his  father,  he  was  a  ship  master,  and  a  man  highly 
esteemed  in  the  community  in  which  he  resided.  He  died  at  Glouces- 
ter, February  14,  1868. 

Children.     Born  at  Gloucester^  Massachusetts. 

543  1  William^,  born  April  14,  1855.    He  is  a  manufacturer  of  picture 

and  mirror  frames,  at  Boston,  is  at  present  unmarried. 

544  ^Orsamus  T.3,  born  December  4,  1865.     Died  December  8,  1865. 


545  'JAMES  A.^   came  to  this   country  about    1846,    and    died    in 

Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1865. 
Children.     Born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey. 

546  iLetitia  M.2,  born  in  1851. 

547  2JoHi^^  W.2,  born  in  1854;  m.  Alfretta  E.  Bailey.    In  1888  he  was 

living  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  but  had  no  children. 

548  3Sarah  E.2,  born  in  1856. 


549  ^THOMASS  a  son  of  Charles  Allerton,  of  Ashby-de-laZouch, 

Derbyshire,  England,  came  to  this  country  in  1879. 
He  is  at  present  a  resident  of  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  and  has  nine 
children,  as  follows: 

550  1  John  Charles^. 

551  sWilliam2. 

552  3Thomas2. 

553  *Mary2. 

554  ^AusTiN^. 

555  6Henry2. 

556  ''Benjamin  Newbold^. 

557  sColinS. 

558  8 Arnold  England^. 

8 


114  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

559  George  Allerton, 

560  Samson  Allerton, 

561  William  H.  Allerton, 

are  three  English  potters,  who  reside  at  Trenton,  New 
Jersey. 


APPENDIX. 


Note  A. 

Elder  William  Bbewster,  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in 
America,  was  born  during  the  last  half  of  1566  or  first  half  of  1567. 
The  date  of  his  birth  is  determined  by  an  affidavit  made  in  Leyden, 
Holland,  June  25,  1609,  in  which  he,  wife  Mary,  and  son  Jonathan, 
declare  their  ages  to  be  respectively  42,  40,  16.  Bradford  says: 
(JV.  E.  H.  &=  G.  Reg.  Vol.  iS,  pp.  j8  to  20.)  He  was  "nere  foreskore 
years  of  age  (if  not  all  out)  when  he  dyed."  This  statement  agrees 
with  the  affidavit.  He  was  born  in  Scrooby,  Northamptonshire, 
England. 

His  father,  William  Brewster,  was  appointed  by  Archbishop 
Sandys,  Bishop  of  York,  in  January,  1575-6,  receiver  of  Scrooby  and 
bailiff  of  the  Manor  House  in  that  place,  belonging  to  the  Archbishop, 
and  to  have  a  life  term  of  both  offices.  The  Manor  House  was  the  same 
in  which  Cardinal  Woolsey  had  made  his  last  stop,  before  reaching 
home,  on  his  final  journey,  on  compulsory  retirement  from  Court, 
after  banishment  by  King  Henry  VIH,  thirty  years  earlier. 

The  parish  register  of  Scrooby  does  not  begin  until  1695,  and  no 
record  of  William  Brewster's  birth,  baptism  or  marriage  has  been 
found.  He  matriculated  at  Peterhouse,  Cambridge,  December  3,  1580, 
but  it  does  not  appear  that  he  remained  long  enough  to  take  his  degree. 
He  is  next  found  as  a  "discreete  and  faithfull"  assistant  of  William 
Davison,  Secretary  of  State  to  Queen  Elizabeth — accompanying  that 
gentleman  on  his  embassy  to  the  Netherlands,  in  August,  1585,  and 
serving  him  at  Court,  after  his  return,  until  his  downfall  in  1587. 


116  TH£    ALLERTON    family. 

After  the  retirement  of  Davison,  Brewster  returned  to  Scrooby, 
where  h6  lived  "in  good  esteeme  amongst  his  friends  and  ye  gentlemen 
of  those  parts,  espetially  the  godly  and  religious,  doing  much  good  in 
promoting  and  furthering  religion."  In  1590,  he  was  appointed  to 
administer  the  estate  of  his  father,  who  died  in  the  summer  of  that 
year,  leaving  a  widow,  Prudence. 

His  father  was  postmaster  of  Scrooby  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
and  it  is  said,  that  his  grand-father  held  the  same  office. 

Sir  John  Stanhope,  who  became  Postmaster  General  in  June,  1593, 
appointed  one  Samuel  Bevercote  to  succeed  the  deceased  Brewster. 
Through  the  influence  of  Davison,  however,  the  old  Postmaster's  son 
William  was  soon  appointed  to  the  office,  which  he  held  until 
September  30,  1607.  (o.  s.) 

His  residence  at  Scrooby  was  the  old  Manor  House.  There  the 
members  of  the  Pilgrim  Church  were  accustomed  to  meet  on  the 
Lord's  day,  when  Brewster  "with  great  love,  entertained  them  when 
they  came,  making  provission  for  them,  to  his  great  charge." 

The  Pilgrims  attempting  to  move  to  Holland,  in  the  latter  part  of 
1607,  were  imprisoned  at  Boston,  through  the  treachery  of  the  Master 
of  the  ship  that  was  engaged  to  transport  them. 

Bradford  says  that  Brewster  "was  ye  cheefe  of  those  that  were 
taken  at  Boston,  and  suffered  ye  greatest  loss,  and  of  ye  seven  that 
were  kept  longest  in  prison,  and  after  bound  over  to  ye  assises." 

Through  Bradford  also,  we  learn  that  Brewster,  after  he  reached 
Holland,  suffered  many  hardships,  and  spent  most  of  his  means  in 
providing  for  his  "many  children." 

He  was  not  so  well  fitted  as  the  other  Pilgrims  for  the  hard  labor 
which  became  their  common  lot,  yet  he  bore  his  condition  cheerfully. 

During  the  latter  part  of  the  twelve  years  spent  in  Holland,  he 
increased  his  income  very  much  by  teaching,  and  by  the  profits  from 
a  printing  press,  which  he — by  the  help  of  some  friends — set  up  at 
Leyden.  At  the  end  of  that  time,  "for  sundrie,  weightee  and  solid 
reasons,"    which    are   duly  set   forth    in    Bradford's   history,   among 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  117 

which  "  and  which  was  not  least,"  was  a  true  missionary  spirit,  the 
church  at  Leyden  resolved  to  emigrate  to  Virginia.  Brewster,  the 
Elder  of  the  Church,  who  had  been  chosen  to  that  office  during  the 
Pilgrim  stay  at  Leyden,  was  "desired"  by  those  chosen  to  go  first, 
"to  goe  with  them,"  while  John  Robinson,  the  Pastor,  stayed  with 
the  majority,  who  should  follow  later.  Thus  it  happens  that  we  find 
Elder  Brewster,  his  wife  Mary,  his  two  younger  sons,  the  wife  of  his 
son  Jonathan,  and  her  son  William,  among  the  passengers  of  that, 
now  famous  vessel — the  Mayflower — which  dropped  anchor  at 
Plymouth  Harbor,  December  11,  1620,  (o.  s.). 

At  Plymouth,  Brewster  took  an  important  part  in  establishing  the 
Pilgrim  Republic,  not  shrinking  from  even  the  most  severe  manual 
labor,  and  "  when  the  church  had  no  other  minister,  he  taught  twise 
every  Saboth,  and  yt  at  both  powerfully  and  profitably  to  ye  great 
contentment  of  ye  hearers." 

His  wife  Mary,  whose  maiden  name  has  not  been  discovered, 
"dyed  at  Plymouth,  in  New  England,  the  iTth  of  April,  1627.  (From 
the  "Brewster  Book,"  a  very  old  manuscript,  containing  a  record  of 
the  Brewster  family,  and  now  (1899)  in  possession  of  George  Ernest 
Brown,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  Secretary  General,  Society  of  Mayflower 
Descendants).  Bradford  says  :  that  though  she  dyed  "  long  before  her 
husband,  yet  she  dyed  aged,"  but  by  her  affidavit  of  1609,  she  was 
less  than  sixty  years  of  age,  and  it  is  probable  that  her  "  great  and 
continual  labours,  with  other  crosses  and  sorrows,  hastened  it  (i.  e.  old 
age)  before  ye  time." 

Elder  Brewster  survived  his  wife  many  years,  and  "dyed  at 
Plymouth,  in  New  England,  the  10th  of  April,  1644."  (This  record 
is  from  the  "  Brewster  Book,"  in  which  the  entry  was  made  by  the 
eldest  son,  Jonathan,  probably  in  the  year  1644,  and  certainly  before 
1651,  and  it  is  doubtless  correct). 

He  left  a  library  of  about  400  volumes,  valued  at  £42  19s  lid. 
"August  20,  1645,  a  final  division  of  the  Elder's  estate  was  made  by 
Bradford,  Winslow,  Prence  and  Standish,  between  Jonathan  and  Love 
his  onely  children  remayneing." 


118  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Governor  Bradford  pays  tribute  to  the  character  of  his  "dear  and 
lovins  friend,"  Elder  William  Brewster,  in  the  following  words: — 
"He  was  wise  and  discreete  and  well  spoken,  having  a  grave  and 
deliberate  utterance,  of  a  very  cheerful  spirite,  very  sociable  and  pleas- 
ante  amongst  his  freinds,  of  an  humble  and  modest  mind,  of  a 
peaceable  disposition,  vnder  vallewing  him  self  and  his  owne  abilities, 
and  sometimes  over  valewing  others.  Inoffencive  and  innocent  in 
his  life  and  conversation."  *  *  *  "tender  harted  and  compassionate 
of  such  as  were  in  miserie,"  *  *  *  "In  teaching  he  was  very 
moving  and  starting  of  affections,  also  very  plaine  and  distincte  in 
what  he  taught,  by  which  means  he  became  ye  more  profitable  to  ye 
hearers."  *  *  *  "For  the  government  of  ye  church  *  *  *  he 
was  earful  to  preserve  good  order  in  ye  same,"  *  *  *  "and 
accordingly  God  gave  good  success  to  his  endeavors  here,  in  all  his 
days,  and  he  saw   ye  fruite  of  his  labours  in  that  behalfe." 

Children.     Born  at  Scrooby,  England. 
Jonathan^,   born  August  12,  1593;  married  Lucretia .     Came  to 

New  England  in  the  "Fortune,"  1621. 
Patience^,    born ;    married   Thomas   Prence,    August   5,    1624. 

(Afterwards  Governor  of   the  Colony.)     Came   to    New 

England,  on  the  "Ann,"  1623.     She  died  1634. 
FearS,  born ,  married  Isaac  Allerton,  1626,  as  his  second  wife, 

and  died  December  12,  1634.     Came  to  New  England  on 

the  "Ann,"  1623. 

Born  at  Leyden,   Holland. 

Love2,   born .     Married  Sarah  Collier,  May  15,  1634.     Came  to 

New  England  on  the  "  Mayflower,"   with  his  father. 

Wrestling^,  born .     Died  unmarried.     Came  to  New  England  on 

the  "Mayflower." 
(See  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical    Register,    Vol.    4, 
page  174.      Vol.    53,    page    109.       Savage's  Genealogical  Dictionary, 
Vol.   1.) 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  119 

Note   B. 

So  much  has  been  said  of  a  contradictory  character,  in  regard  to 
the  wife  or  wives  of  Isaac  ^  Allerton,  it  has  been  thought  best  to  state 
the  subjoined  facts,  in  order  that  the  question  may  be  well  understood. 

Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  Vol,  1,  (1893-4)  pp. 
199,  200,  says:  in  "Fitzhugh  Letters,"  it  is  stated  that  Isaac^  had  a 
wife  Elizabeth  as  early  as  1652,  and  in  1663  she  is  described  in  the 
Westmoreland  Record,  as  Elizabeth,  former  relict  of  Major  George 
Colclough,  of  Northumberland,  but  recorded  at  Northumberland,  and 
dated  February  20,  1663. 

Thomas  Willoughby,  and  Sarah  his  wife,  (who  was  evidently  a 
daughter  of  Richard  Thomson,  of  Northumberland),  gave  a  power  of 
attorney  to  "our  loving  brother  Isaac  Allerton." 

In  Northumberland,  November  20,  1658,  George  Colclough,  who 
had  married  Ursula  (Brishe),  widow  of  Col.  John  Mattrora,  and  earlier 
of  Richard  Thompson,  was  appointed  guardian  of  Richard  and  Sarah, 
infants  (under  15  years  of  age)  of  said  Richard  Thompson. 

The  Virginia  Magazine  of  History  and  Biography,  Vol.  3,  p.  323, 
Dr.  Christopher  Johnson  says:  Simon  Overzee,  whom  Job  Chandler 
calls  his  brother-in-law,  was  a  merchant,  and  probably  of  Dutch 
descent.  He  resided,  at  various  times,  both  in  Virginia  and  Maryland. 
{Maryland  Archives,  Vol.  3,  folio  298,  William  and  Mary  Quarterly, 
Vol  2,  p.  268.)  January  20,  1658,  he  entered  rights  for  himself,  Sarah 
his  wife,  and  one  child.  (Land  Office,  Lib.  Q.  Folio  323.)  In  1658,  his 
wife,  Mrs.  Sarah  Overzee,  died  in  child  bed,  and  was  buried  9  October, 
1658.  (Rec.  Prov.  Court,  Lib.  S,  Folio  164,  166.) 

In  a  petition  of  Thomas  Cornwaley's,  dated  11  December,  1658, 
Mrs.  Yardley,  widow  of  Col.  Francis  Yardley,  is  called  mother-in-law 
of  Job  Chandler  and  Simon  Overzee.  (Lib.  S,  Folio  144.) 

The  evidence  here  presented,  compared  with  the  Thoroughgood 
Genealogy,  (in  Vol.  2,  p.  414,  Va.  Hist.  Magazine)  show  beyond  a 
doubt  that  Mrs.  Ann  Chandler  and  Mrs.  Sarah  Overzee,  were  the 
daughters  of  Capt.  Adam  Thoroughgood,  and  Sarah  his  wife. 


120  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Simon  Overzee,  married  a  second  time,  and  died  at  the  end  of  Febru- 
ary, or  the  beginning  of  March,  1659,  without  issue,  (Chancery  Lib. 
CD,  Fol.  9,  56,  103)  and  18  December,  1660,  his  widow  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Overzee,  was  granted  administration  of  his  estate,  giving 
bound,  1  January,  1660-1,  for  100,000  pounds  of  tobacco.  (Test.  Prox. 
Lib.  IC,  Fol.  7.) 

Soon  after  this  sale  she  married  Col.  George  Colclough,  for  one 
Hugh  Broin,  demands  1  February,  1660-1,  a  scire  facias  against  Col. 
George  Colclough  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  widow  and  administratrix 
of  Simon  Overzee,  deceased.  (Lib.  S,  Fol.  403.) 

Major  George  Colclough,  had  also  been  previously  married,  his 
first  wife  being  Ursula  Brishc,  widow  of  Col.  John  Mattrom,  and 
previously  of  Richard    Thomson. 

Major  George  Colclough  died  about  1662,  and  in  1663,  his  widow 
Elizabeth  appears  as  wife  of  Isaac  Allerton,  who  had  also  previously 
had  a  wife  in  New  England,,  also  named  Elizabeth. 

The  power  of  attorney  given  20  February,  1663,  from  Thomas 
Willoughby,  and  Sarah  his  wife,  to  "our  beloved  brother  Isaac 
Allerton,"  the  fact  that  Isaac  Allerton  had  a  son  Willoughby  Allerton, 
and  the  entry  of  the  name  of  Elizabeth  Willoughby  among  the  "head- 
rights"  of  Capt.  Thomas  Willoughby,  in  1654,  combine  to  prove  that 
she  was  Elizabeth,  sister  of  Colonel  Thomas,  and  daughter  of  Capt. 
Thomas  Willoughby.  The  Virginia  Magazine,  No\.  1,  p.  448,  says: 
Capt.  Thomas  Willoughby,  was  barn  in  1601,  his  only  son  was  Thomas^ 
Willoughby,  born  December  25,  1632,  who  married  before  1660,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Ursula  (B  rishe)  Thomson.  They  had  a  son 
Thomas^  Willoughby,  who  married  Margaret  Herbert. 

Thomas^  Willoughby,  who  was  born  in  1632,  and  educated  in  the 
Merchant  Taylor's  School,  in  London,  England,  and  was  Lieut.  Colonel 
in  Virginia,  and  Thomas^  Willoughby,  (his  son)  who  styles  himself  in 
deeds  of  date  1 688-9,  "Thomas  Willoughby,  of  Elizabeth  River,  in 
County  Lower  Norfolk,  Va.,  gentleman,  sole  son  and  heir  of  the  Hon. 
Lieut.  Colonel  Thomas  Willoughby,  of  the  same  Parish  and  County. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  121 

He  married  Margaret  Herbert,  and  had  a  son  Thomas;  a  daughter  who 
married  Rev.  Moses  Robertson,  of  St.  Stephen  Parish,  County  West- 
moreland; and  a  daughter  Sarah,  who  dying  single,  in  1740,  mentions 
in  her  will  of  January  19,  1738,  her  brother  Thomas  Willoughby,  and 
her  cousins  (nephews)  Thomas,  Samuel,  William,  Allerton  Willoughby 
and  also  her  cousin  John  Willoughby  Robertson  (her  nephew,  son  of 
her  sister.) 

In  tracing  as  early  a  marriage  as  that  of  Isaac^  Allerton  to  his 
second  wife,  Elizabeth  Willoughby,  it  is  seldom  that  such  a  combination 
of  marriages  is  found,  but  plainly  stated,  the  facts  are  found  to  be 
these,  viz : 

Simon  Overzee,  married,  first,  Sarah  Thoroughgood;  second,  Eliza- 
beth Willoughby.     He  died  February  or  March,  1659. 

Col.  George  Colclougii,  married,  first,  Ursula  (Brishe) ,  as  her 

third  husband.  She  being  widow  of  Richard  Thomson, 
and  Col.  John  Mattrom.  The  children  of  Richard  and 
Ursula  being  placed  in  guardianship  of  their  step-father. 
He  married  second,  Elizabeth  Willoughby,  as  her  second 
husband,  she  being  widow  of  Simon  Overzee. 

IsAAC^  Allerton,  married,  first,  Elizabeth ;    second,  Elizabeth 

Willoughby,  as  her  third  husband,  she  being  widow  of 
Simon  Overzee,  and  Col.  George  Colclough,  Isaac 
Allerton,  thus  became  the  "loving  brother"  of 
Thomas^  Willoughby. 


122  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Note  C. 

A  question  has  arisen  among  Genealogists,  as  to  the  identity  of 
Isaac^  Allerton,  (son  of  Isaac^),  born  in  New  Haven,  June  11,  1655, 
and  the  Isaac^  Allerton,  mentioned  by  Walter  S.  Allerton,  on  page  55 
of  the  Allerton  Genealogy,  pviblished  by  him  in  1888. 

Although  it  has,  so  far,  been  found  impossible  to  obtain  any 
record  directly  substantiating  the  fact,  it  is  well  known  that  early 
records  are  defective,  and  incomplete,  and  especially  so  where  persons 
moved  about,  as  it  is  known  that  the  "early"  Allertons  did. 

A  careful  study  will  convince  the  most  skeptical  that  they  are  one 
and  the  same  person. 

All  authorities  concede  that  Isaac  Allerton,  of  the  Mayflower,  was 
the  only  Allerton  known  to  have  emigrated  to  New  England,  at  an 
early  day,  except  one  John  Allerton,  a  sailor  on  the  Mayflower,  who 
died  before  the  return  of  the  vessel  to  England,  and  who  had  no 
descendants. 

Isaac!  had  but  two  sons:  Bartholomew^,  by  his  first  wife  Mary 
Norris.  He  went  to  England  with  his  father;  married  there,  and  as 
far  as  known,  none  of  his  descendants  came  to  New  England. 

Isaac^  was  born  at  Plymouth,  in  1630,  by  his  second  wife.  Fear 
Brewster,  and  from  him  the  Allerton  family  in  this  country  descend. 

Isaac^  was  married  as  early  as  1652,  to  Elizabeth.  (Maiden  name 
unknown.)  He  resided  at  New  Haven,  Conn.  By  this  wife  he  had 
three  children  born  to  him  there.  Elizabeth^,  born  September  2Y, 
1653.  Isaac^,  born  June  11,  1655.  Sarah^,  born  about  1660,  and 
shortly  after  her  birth,  his  wife  Elizabeth  died. 

His  father,  Isaac^,  also  lived  in  New  Haven,  after  1646  or  7,  and 
died  there,  intestate,  in  1659,  leaving  a  widow,  Johanna,  (a  third  wife.) 
Isaac^  purchased  the  homestead,  with  the  understanding  that  his  step- 
mother should  have  the  use  of  it  during  her  life-time,  and  that  it  then 
should  revert  to  his  daughter  Elizabeth^.  Shortly  after  this  time, 
he,  (Isaac^),  removed  to  Virginia,  leaving  his  daughter,  Elizabeth', 
in  care  of  his  step-mother,  and  taking  his  son,  Isaac',  and  daughter 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  123 

Sarah^,  with  him.  Sarah^  married  Hancock  Lee,  in  Virginia,  and  it 
is  thouscht  that  Isaac^  was  also  married  there.  About  1663  Isaac^ 
married  in  Virginia,  as  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Willoughby, 
She  having  been  previously  married  to  Simon  Overzee,  and  Col. 
George  Colclough. 

By  his  second  wife,  Isaac^  had  three  children,  Daughter^,  who 
married  a  Newton.  Frances^,  who  married  Capt.  Samuel  Travers, 
and  Willoughby^,  who  married  Hannah  Keene,  who  was  widow  of 
John  Bushrod. 

In  1682  the  step-mother  of  Isaac^,  died,  in  New  Haven,  and  he 
returned  from  Virginia,  to  have  the  original  deed  confirmed  and 
properly  witnessed,  in  order  to  be  sure  that  the  homestead  might  come 
into  the  possession  of  his  daughter  Elizabeth 3,  who  had  married,  in 
New  Haven,  Benjamin  Starr,  as  her  first  husband  ;  and  at  this  time, 
was  living  with  her  second  husband,  Simon  E^'res. 

At  just  about  this  time,  an  Isaac  Allerton,  is  found  in  New  Haven. 

He  could  not  have  been  other  than  Isaac^,  the  brother  of  Eliza- 
beth^,  and  who  had  returned  from  Virginia,  with  his  father — for  in 
no  other  way  could  an  Isaac  Allerton  have  been  there  at  that  date. 

It  is  claimed  by  one  or  two  genealogists  that  Isaac^,  son  of  Isaac^, 
died  before  1*702,  because  he  is  not  mentioned  in  his  father's  will. 
Granting  that  he  was  dead,  (which  is  very  improbable,  from  other 
circumstances),  it  does  not  necessarily  follow  that  he  left  no  children. 

In  the  will  of  Isaac^,  he  states  that  his  daughter  Frances  Travers 
had  received  her  full  portion  of  his  estate,  at  the  time  of  her  marriage, 
and  consequently  wills  her  nothing,  but  for  memorial  sake,  he  gives 
each  of  her  three  daughters  one  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco,  and  as 
they  were  living  in  Virginia,  and  where  constantly  in  his  company,  it 
was  very  natural  that  he  should  leave  them  a  memorial.  No  doubt 
Isaac',  had  also  received  his  full  portion,  at  the  time  of  his  marriage, 
or,  as  is  most  probable,  when  he  became  of  age,  and  therefore  is  not 
spoken  of  in  his  father's  will. 


124  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

It  is  but  recently  that  any  doubt  of  the  descent  of  the  family  has 
arisen,  or  found  expression. 

Mead  Allerton  did  not  seem  to  think  it  necessary  to  preserve 
proofs  of  a  fact  that  appeared  to  be  generally  admitted,  and  although 
Mr.  Allerton  does  not  give  his  authority  for  some  statements,  it  is  a 
well  known  fact  that  he  had  been  carefully  collecting  his  manuscript, 
covering  a  period  of  several  years,  and  that  he  had  been  assisted  in 
his  work  by  such  men  as  Hon.  H.  B.  Cushman,  Dr.  Shurtleff,  Dr. 
Leonard  Bacon,  and  others.  While  probably  some  errors  of  a  general 
character  occur,  the  main  facts  are  undoubtedly  correct. 

Mr.  Francis  B.  Trowbridge,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  a  well  known 
genealogist,  compiler  and  publisher  of  Champion,  Hoadley,  and 
Ashley  family  genealogies,  who  examined  the  New  Haven  records  in 
1899,  says: 

"I  do  not  think  you  can  learn  anything  further  from  the  land, 
probate,  or  vital  records  of  New  Haven. 

In  the  index  of  deeds  the  name  appears  but  once.  May  4,  1680, 
(Vol.  ],  p.  38),  referring  to  an  agreement  between  William  Holt  and 
Isaac^  Allerton.  The  deed  is  an  agreement  between  Holt's  son  John 
and  widow  Johanna  Allerton.  In  the  probate  records  there  is  but 
one  mention  of  Allerton,  (Vol.  1,  1st  part,  pp.  82,  83),  given  in 
Allerton  Genealogy  of  1888,  pp.  50,  51. 

In  an  abstract  of  Colony  Records,  made  by  my  great  uncle,  (E.  C. 
Bacon,  Esq.),  in  1835,  I  note  : — 

"  Allerton,  Isaac,  New  Haven,  October,  1643."  "  His  afflicted  state, 
noted,  1652."  "His  son,  Isaac^  married,  as  early  as  1655  or  6." 
"Inventory  of  Isaac^,  February,  1658-9."  "Eldest,  and  only  son, 
noted,  1659."  "Mrs.  Allerton  sent  in  1684,  for  a  chest,  at  Mr.  John 
Harriman's."  "At  this  time,  John  Harriman,  Senior,  lived  at  Eliza- 
bethtown,  New  Jersey,  and  his  son,  John  Harriman,  Junior,  at  New 
Haven."  My  great  uncle,  therefore,  apparently  found  evidence  that 
Isaac^,  born  1655,  was  the  same  man  as  Isaac  Allerton,  who  was  in 
New  Haven,  1684. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  125 

The  "Mrs.  Allerton,"  who  sent  for  the  chest,  in  1684,  at  John 
Harriman's,  was  evidently  the  wife  of  Isaac 3,  for  the  widow  of  Isaac* 
died  in  1682,  and  Isaac^  was  then  living  in  Virginia,  married,  and  his 
family  there,  except  his  daughter  Elizabeth 3,  and  Isaac^,  as  above. 
It  will  be  noted,  also,  that  John  Harriman,  Senior,  swore  to  the  will 
of  Isaac!  Allerton,  in  October,  1659,  showing  an  intimacy  between  the 
families,  and  carrying  with  it  the  probability  of  the  identity  of  Isaac^. 


Note   D. 

The  dates  of  birth  of  the  children  of  Isaac 3,  are  given  as  closely 
as  possible.  The  details  in  respect  to  this  generation,  were  many  of 
them  furnished  to  Mead  Allerton,  by  Sarah ^  Allerton,  (Isaac",  John*, 
Isaac^).  She  was  born  at  Plainfield,  Conn.,  February  12,  1770. 
Married,  George  James,  and  died  in  1858,  being  thirty-seven  years  of 
age  when  her  father  died. 

Isaac^  was  born  in  1725.  It  is  a  well  know  fact  that  he  always 
claimed  to  be  a  descendant  of  the  Mayflower  Pilgrim,  and  possessed 
a  broad-axe  that  he  claimed  had  been  brought  over  in  the  Mayflower. 
(See  ReacT s  History  of  Amenia,  N.  Y.) 

The  circumstances  connected  with  Sarah  ^  Allerton's  time  of  birth 
and  that  of  her  father's,  render  it  very  probable  that  Isaac"  knew 
many  general  facts  connected  with  those  concerning  his  father  John*, 
and  grand-father  Isaac^. 

Undoubtedly  Mead  Allerton,  obtained  many  unrecorded  facts  in 
this  manner. 


126  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Note   E. 

DESCENDANTS   OF  EDWMD   SPAULDING, 

In  direct  line  to  Lucy  Spaulding,  born  172Y, 
who   married   Isaac ^  Allerton. 

EDWARD  SPAULDING,  is  the  first  of  the  family  of  whom  we  have 
any  knowledge.  He  came  to  America  between  1630  and 
1633.  He  first  appeared  at  Braintree,  Mass.,  where  his  first  wife, 
Margaret,  and  his  daughter  Grace  died,  and  Benjamin  was  born. 
He  was  made  Freeman,  May  13,  1640.  On  October  1,  1645,  he  was 
one  of  the  petitioners  for  the  new  town  of  Chelmsford.  Was  Select- 
man in  1656-60-61.  February  4,  1661,  is  recorded  the  division  of 
land  granted  him  by  the  town,  amounting  to  twenty-eight  acres. 
In  1665,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  "committee  for  the  laying  out 
of  the  Meadows,  granted  to  the  several  inhabitants,  accoi'ding  to  town 
order."  In  1663  he  was  "  the  surveyor  of  the  highways."  In  1666, 
he  was  chosen,  with  three  others,  "surveyor  for  the  Newfield,"  a  tract 
of  land  lying  north  of  Stoney  Brook,  then  first  opened  for  pasturage, 
afterward,  when  settled,  called  Newfield,  and  subsequently.  North 
Chelmsford.  He  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  Newfield.  (Rec.  in 
Town  Records,  March  12,  1667,  6A.) 

He  died  February  26,  1670.  His  will,  dated  February  13,  1667, 
does  not  mention  his  sons,  Benjamin  and  Joseph.  His  widow,  Rachel, 
was  made  executrix,  but  she  died  soon  after  he,  and  on  probate  of 
the  will,  April  5,  1670,  administration  was  given  to  John  and  Edward. 

The  reason  Benjamin  and  Joseph  were  not  mentioned  in  the  will 
is  undoubtedly  because  they  had  already  been  given  their  portion,  and 
which  they  had  invested  in  land  in  Plainfield  and  Killingly,  Conn. 

Children.     Born  in  Braintree.     By  first  wife. 

1  Johns,  born  about  1633. 

^Edward^,  born  about  1635.     Married  first,  Priscilla  Edwards;  second, 
Margaret  Barret.     He  was  Lieut,  of  Militia. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  127 

3Geace2,  born .     Died  May,  1641. 

By  second  wife. 
*Benjamin2,  born  April  7,  1643.     Married  Olive  Farwell. 

sjosEPH^,  born   October   25,    1646.     Married   Mercy   Jewell.      Died 

Plainfield,  Conn. 
«Dinah2,  born  March  14,  1649. 

''Andrew*,   born   February    19,    1652.      Married    Hannah  Jefes,   of 
Billerica. 


iJOHNS  (EdwardI). 

Born,  1633.  Died,  1721.  Married,  May  18,  1658,  at 
Concord,  Mass.,  (by  Maj,  Simeon  Willard,)  Hannah  Hale,  who  died, 
August  14,  1689. 

He  came  to  Chelmsford,  with  his  father,  about  1654,  and  was 
made  Freeman,  March  11,  1689-90.  He  died  at  Chelmsford,  Oct.  3, 
1721,  aged  88,  and  left  no  will. 

In  HulPs  Journal,  war  expenses  of  1675-6,  John  Spalding  is  men- 
tioned as  a  soldier  under  Capt.  Manning,  in  King  Philip's  war ;  as 
it  is  also  in  Bodge'' s  Soldiers  of  King  Phillip'' s  War,  p.  278. 

Children. 

iJoHN^,  born  February  15,  1659;  married,  first,  Ann  Bullard;  second. 

Widow  Mary  Fletcher. 
2Eunice3,  born  July  27,  1660. 

^Edward^,  born  September  16,  1663;  married  Mary  Bracket. 
*Hannah3,  born  April  28,  1666. 

^Samuel^,  born  March  6,  1668;  married  Mary  Butterfield. 
^Debgrah^,  born  November  12,  1670. 

'Joseph^,  born  October  22,  1673;  married  Elizabeth  Colburn. 
^TiMOTHY^,  born  about  1676;  married,  first,  Rebecca  Winn;  second, 

Bethia  N . 


128  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

3EDWARD3,  (John2,  EdwardI). 

Born  September  16,  1663;  married,  first,  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  Bracket,  of  Billerica,  November  27,  1683,  who  died  Decem- 
ber 8,  1704;  second,  Dorothy  Barker,  October  23,  1705.  He  removed 
about  1697,  to  Plainfield,  Conn. 

Children.     Born  at  Chelmsford,  Mass.     By  first  wife. 
^Edward*,  born  February  3,  1684;  married  Elizabeth  Hall. 
2J0SIAH*,  born  January  13,  1686;  married  Sarah  Warren. 
3lsAAC<,  born  September  27,  1693;  married  Elizabeth  Haynes. 
*MaryS  born  July  23,  1695.     Died  August  18,  1695. 
sJacob*,  born  May  14,  1696;  married  Hannah . 

Born  at  Plainfield,  Conn. 
^Philip*,  born  March  6,  1700;  married  Ann  Cleveland. 

By  second  wife. 
''Deborah*,  born  January  17,  1707. 
^Rachel*,  born  January  17,  1707. 
sUnis*,  born  August  16,  1715. 
1  "Joseph*,  born  September  3,  1718;  married  Mehitable . 


ePHILIF*,  (Edward^,  John^,  Edward^). 

Born  March  6,  1700,  at  Plainfield,  Conn.  (The  record  is 
torn  and  defaced  in  last  figure,  and  possibly  may  not  be  strictly 
correct,  but  used.) 

He  died  May  2,  1752.     Married  Ann,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Eliza- 
beth Cleveland,  August  10,  1721. 

The  names  below  appear  on  Plainfield,  Conn.  Records. 

Rev.  V.  Spauldirig   claims  also  two  other  children,  viz:    Dorcas 
and  Agnes. 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  129 

Children. 

iAndrew^,  born  April  28, 1722.    Drowned,  June  1,  1796,    Unmarried. 
^AziRAH^j  born  January  19,  1724;  married  Molly  Jearould. 
^CuRTis^,  born  April  11,  1726;  married,  first,  Hannah  Shepard;  second 

Betty  Shepard. 
*Lucy5,  born  November  4,  1727;  married  Isaac  Allerton,  of  Amenia, 

New  York. 
^Jacobs,   born   November  14,  1729;  married,   first,   Mattie  Gerould; 

second.  Thankful  Burgess. 
^Daniel^,  born  December  12,   1731. 

""JoHAKNAH^,   born   September   22,    1733;  married   Reuben   Jerould, 

January  11,  1757. 
^Charles^,  born  December  12,  1735;  married  Abigail  Gates.     Lived 

in  Vermont. 
^Jonathans,  born  July  30,  1738;  married  Phebe  Buckens. 

i^Alpheus^,  born  February  3,  1740;  married  Margaret  Phillips. 

iiEnnis^,  born  March  10,  1743. 

Note. — The  items  of  the  Spaulding  family  are  taken  from  the  "Spaulding 
Memorial,"  by  Samuel  J.  Spaulding,  of  Newburyport,  Massachusetts,  1873, 
pages  14  to  38. 


130  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


ERRATA. 

Page  j6.  For  Mary  Keene,  read  Hannah. 

"     43.  Strike  out  "Widow  of  his  brother  John." 

"      6S'  For  Levi  Denins,  read  Denius. 

"      24.  For  Tamon  H.  Lockwood,  read  Tamar. 

"     yd.  For  Adelaide  L.  Herson,  read  Hebsom. 

"      pz.  For  187  James,  read  189  James. 


THE     INDICES. 


THE    ALLERTONS. 


Abigail  (John6) 48 

Abigail  B 112 

Abigail  M.^  (John  Lutz'') 66 

Abbys   (John  RusselP) 49 

Abby  L.9  (Anson  M.s) 75 

Acel  H.«  (Francis^) 96 

Ada  A. 9   (JamesS) 91 

Adalines  (Joshua'') 51 

AdalineJ.9  (William  C.8) VO 

Adaline  S.9  (HenryS) 69 

Adelaide  H. 10   (Walter  S.^).  .105 

AdellaM.9  (James  M.s) 78 

Admetus  O.^  (John  Lutz''). . .   66 

Allen^    (Isaac^) 100 

Allen  W.9   (Samuel^) 90,  108 

Alexander  W.»  (James  M.^)..   78 

Alice^  (Isaac^) 40 

Alices  (Archibald  M.'!) 54 


Alices  (Samuel^) 98 

Alice  E.»  (Isaacs) 79 

Alice  J.  10  (George  W.^) 103 

Alice  R. 9   (George  W.8) 74 

Alice  R.»    (Anson  M.8) 75 

Almond^  (John'') 66 

Almyra^  (John'') 53 

Almyra  P.^  (Anson  M.^) 75 

Alpheus  B. 8  (John'') 64,  92 

Alvah9  (Oliver  H.  P.s) 92 

Alvira^  (John'') 66 

Alvira^  (James^) 91 

Amanda  H,8   (Samuel  W.''). .   61 

Amaryllis''  (Reuben^) 46 

Amaryllis^  (Samuel  W.'') 59 

Ambrose  B.  9  (James  M. 8) 78 

Amelia  A.'o  (Amos  V.») 108 

Amos^  (Zachariah^) 41,  46 


132  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Amos''  (Amos") 47      Benjamin  N 113 

Amoss  (Davidi) 63      Betsey"  (JobnS) 39 

Amos^  (John') 64,93      Bessie  B.i"   (Amos  V.^) 108 

Amoss  (James'') 65      Bessie  L.i "  (George  W.») 103 

Amos  V.9  (Samuel^) 90,   108      Blanche^  (JohnS) 96 

Amy  B.9  (David^) Id      Byron ^  (Samuel  W.'') 62,  83 

Anna^  (John*) 37      Calista^  (SaraueH) 68 

Anna"   (Isaac^) 40      Caroline^  (Isaac'') 52 

Anna''  (Jonathan") 44      Caroline ^  (John'') 53 

Anna 9  (Ransom 8) 70      Caroline 112 

Annaio  (FrankC.9) 102  Caroline  E.^   (William  C.^). .    70 

Anna  0.9  (George  M. 8) 89      Catherine^  (James^) 67 

Anna  E. 8  (Milton  B.'') 63  Catherine  L.^  (John  Lutz''). . .   66 

Annette^  (Townsend^) 71      Charles^  (John  Russell'') 49 

Andrew  J. 8   (John'') 65,95      Charles 113 

Andrew  0.9   (Samuel^) 90      Charles »  (Zachariahs) 99 

Angelina^   (John'') 53      Charles  B.^   (Leander^) 72 

Anson ■!•  (David") 45  Charles  B. »  (Andrew  J.^)  . .  7,  95 

Anson  M.8  (Archibald  M.'')  54,  74      Charles  C.i »  (Allen  W.^) 108 

Anson  R. 9  (William  C.^) 80      Charles  G.^  (George  M.^) 89 

Archibald  M,  T  (David").....   54  Charles  G.io  (Leonard  G.^) .  .101 

Archibald  M. 8  (Archibald  M.'')  Charles  H.s  (Archibald  M.^) .   55 

55,76      Charles  H. 9  (George  W.  8) 74 

Archibald  M. 9  (Anson  M.^). .   75      Charles  H.9  (Anson  M.s) 75 

Arnold  E 113  Charlotte  A. 9  (Archibald  M.s)  77 

Asas  (James') 65  Charlotte  B.9  (George  W.^). .   74 

Asa9  (JohnS) 94,   110  Charlotte  F.i  <>  (George  W.9) ..  103 

Atherton9  (Reuben^) 90  Chauncey  J.  ^  (James  M. ») . .  .    78 

Attila  G.9  (Alpheus  B.8).93,  109      Chloe^  (Amos') 64 

Augustas  (Ransom^) 70      Chloes  (Isaac  C.^) 91 

Austin 113      Clara^  (Milton  Barlow') 62 

Bartholomew^  (Isaac  1) 14,29      Clara^  (John^) 96 

Benjamin  F.9  (William^) 100      Clara^ "  (Job  D.  9) 107 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  133 

Clara  E,9  (Samuel^) 7,  90      Edith  M.i"  (Orville  H.^) 107 

Clarissa^  (Isaac'') 56      Edward 113 

Clarissa  B. 9  (William  C. 8)...   80      Edward^  (Zachariahs) 99 

Clarence^  (Orville^) 83      Edward  E.i "  (Allen  W.  9) 108 

Claud9   (Williams) loo      Effie^  (Oliver  H.  P.^) 92 

Claud  L.9  (JobnS) 97      Effie"  (Jobn^) 95 

Clide^   (Isaacs) lOO  Elbert  C.i«  (Ransom  W. 9). .  .101 

Colin 113      Eleanor^    (David') 63 

Cora9  (Samuel^) 98      Eleanor^   (James'') 67 

Cordelia  A.9(Samiiel«) 90  Eleanor  L.^  (Horace  W.«)  .. .   77 

Cornelia^  (Samuel  W.'') 59      Elipba  B.^  (Milton  B.'') 62 

Cornelius'' (Reuben^) 46,  57      Eliza  Ann^  (Isaac'') 52 

Cornelius^  (Cornelius^). .  .1 1,  57      Eliza  J. »   (David^) 76 

Curtis  0.9  (Andrew  J. 8)..95,  111      Eliza  M.^  (George  W.**) 74 

Daisyi"(James  W.9) 110      Elizabeth^  (Isaac^) 31,  33,  34 

Daniel^   (David'') 63  Elizabeth*  (Willougbby  3). .. .   36 

David«   (Isaac^) 40,44      Elizabeth ^  (John*) 37 

David^o  (Davids) 104      Elizabeth''  (Amos^) 46 

David'' (Amos 6) 47,63      Elizabeths  (John^) 64 

Davids  (David") 63      Elizabeth^  (J^eander^) 72 

Davids  (Archibald  M. '')...  55,  75      Elizabeths 112 

David9  (Davids) ve^  104      Ella  E.s  (Andrew  J.'') 95 

David^  (Amoss) 93  Ellen  C.^"  (Frederick  W.^).  .102 

David  D.9  (George  W.s). 74,  103      Elsie  W.i«  George  M.^) 107 

Davids.  8  (James'') 65      Emma  A.i"  (Asa^) 110 

Delansons    (Isaac'') 52,72      Emma  A.^  (SamueP) 98 

Dora9  (William^) 100      Emma  E.s  (Reuben'') 54 

Dora  J. 9  (Isaacs) 100      Emily s  (Reuben'') 53 

Dorcas s  (John'') 64      Emily9  (Townsends) 71 

DuaneF.9  (Hiram^) 94,  111      Enochs  (Samuel^) 68,  100 

Dudley9  (DelansonS) 72      Esther^  (John*) 37 

Earl  W.9  (Franciss) 96      Esther  A.s  (John^) 65 

Edith9  (RansomS) 70      Esther  H- 1 «  (David9) 104 


134  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Esther  J.  10  (Ransom  W.8)-..  101  Frederick  R.i"  (Attila  G.s)  -.109 

Esther  0.8  (John  Lutz^) 6*7  Frederick  S.^   (David^) 16 

EtheP"  (Francis  M. 9) 109  Frederick  S.i "  (David") 104 

EtheP"  (William  H. 9) 106  Frederick  W.^  (Jolm  T.«)  73,  102 

Eva9  (Hirams) 94  Friend  J. »  (John"') 66 

Eva  M.9  (Alpheus  B.^) 93  Gawin^  (Isaac*) 36 

Experience  F   112  George''  (John^) 43,  49 

Ezras  (Reuben") 53  George^   (Leander«) V2 

Ezekiel«( James'') "7,65,94  George"  (John^) 96 

EzekieP  (Amos^) 93  George n4 

Fay  10  (Asa^) 110  George  C."  (Reuben") 53,  73 

Fernio  (Asa«) 110  George  M.«   (Milton  B.'').. 63,  89 

Flora  B. 9  (William 8) 100  George  M."  (George  M.  8)89,  107 

Florence 9  (Ransom 8) 69  George  M.i"  (George  M. 9)...  107 

Florence"  (Enoch^) 100  George  O."  (James  M.^).  -  78,  106 

Florence  O."  (Isaacs) 79  George  R."  (Archibald  M.^). .    77 

Frank"  (EzekieP) 94  George  W.^  (Archibald  M.'') 

Frank"  (Zachariah*) 99  54,  74 

Frank  C."  (Townsend^).. .  71,  102  George  W."  (George  W. 8)74,  103 

Frank  H."  (George  C.8)-- 73,  103  George  W.^  (J ohn^) 64 

Frank  M.  10  (David") 104  George  W.s  (SamueF) 68 

Frank  M.i"  (William  M.").  ..102  George  W.^  (Horace  W.s)  ...   77 

Frances^  (Isaacs) 33,  34  George  W.i"  (George  W. 9). .  103 

Frances^   (Isaac^) 56  Graceio  (Frank  C") 102 

Frances  A. 8  (John  RusselP)..   49  Gertrude  A."  (Jaines  M^) 78 

Frances  C.9  (Delanson8) 72  Gertrude  G.i «  (Amos  V."). ..  108 

Francis^   (Reuben'') 54  Goodwin "!  (Roger s) 11,42 

Franciss   (John'') 66,  96  Hannahe  (Zachariah^) 41 

Francis  M."  (JaraesS) 91,  108  Hannah''  (Amos^) 47 

FreelingC."  (Oliver  H.P.8)..   92  Hannah ^  (David'') 63 

Freelove^  (John^) 39  Hannah  E."  (IraS) 97 

Frederick  M."  (Ransom^) 69  Hannah  M."  (Samuel^) 98 

Frederick  P.  1 0  (Frank  H.").  .103  Hannah  R."  (John  Lutz'') 67 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY.  135 

Harriets  (William  C. 8) 70      Isaac^  (John*) 37,40 

Harriet  £.»  (William  C.^)  ...   80      Isaac^  (Jonathan^) 44,  51 

Hattie  F.  10  (Jasper  W.«) 109      Isaac'  (David«) 11,  45,  55 

Henrietta' 0  (Theodore^) 110      Isaac^  (Samuel'') 68,  100 

Henriettas  (William^) 99      Isaac*  (Isaac '') 56,  79 

Henrys  (John  Russell^). .  .49,  69      Isaac  C*  (John^) 64,  91 

Henry 113      Isaac  H.9  (Isaac*)   79 

Henry  1 0  (Asa^) 110      Isabella*  (Samuel '') 7,  G8 

Henry  R.  10  (George  W.  9) 103      Jacob ^  (John6) 47 

HenryR.*  (Samuel  W.'')o9,  60,  61      Jacob*  (SamueP) 68 

Henry  W.i"  (Curtis  O.o) Ill      Jane*  (John  RusselP) 49 

Herberts  (Oliver  H.  P.^)   ....   92      Jane  G 7,  68 

Herbert  L.s  (John*) 97      James^  (David^)     45,  56 

Hester*  (James'') 65      James''  (John^) 47,  64 

Hiram*  (John"!) 65,  94      James''  (Job«) 48,  67 

Hiram  L.  10  (Hiram  R.9) 106      James*  (Joshua") 51,  71 

Hiram  R.9  (Isaac*) 79,  106      James*  (David'') 63,  91 

Horace  W.*  (Isaac") 56,  77      James*  (James^) 65,  67 

Howards  (John*) 96      JamesS  (Zachariah*) 99 

Hurons  (John  T.«) 73      James  A 113 

Idas  (John  T.*) V3      James  D.s  (George  W.*) 74 

IdaS  (Amos*) 93      James  M.*  (Isaac"!) 7^  56,  78 

IdaMayio  (Orville  li.s) 107      James  M. 10  (George  O.s) 106 

Ida  T.s  (Isaac*) 79  James  M.s  (William  C.*)  . . . .   70 

Ira^  (Stephen^) 48      James  W. s  (Amos*) 93,  109 

Ira*(David^) 63  Jasper  M.  10  (Leonard  G.s)  ..  .101 

Ira*  (John  Lutz") 67,96  Jasper  W.s  (Oliver  H.  P. *)92,  109 

IraS  (James  M.*) 78  Jeannette  M.*  (Archibald M.'')  55 

Isaaci 9  to  34      Jeannette S.s  (Isaac*) 79 

Isaac2  (Isaaci)9,  25,  31,  32,  33,  34      Jennie  S.s  (John*) 97 

Isaacs  (Isaac2) 9,  34,  35      Jerusha«  (John^) 39 

Isaac*  (Isaac^) 35      Jerusha^  (Roger^) 42 

Isaacs  (Isaac*) 36      Jesse*  (Isaac^) 10,  35,  38 


136 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


Jesse^  (Zachariah^) 41 

Jesse"  (Amos'') 46 

Jobs  (Zachariahs) 41,  47,  48 

Job8(Davicl^) 63 

Job  D. 9  (Samuel 8)  ...11,  90,  107 

Johanna 24,  25,  29 

John*  (Isaac^) 35,  37 

John6  (JohnS) 39,  42 

John 6  (Zachariahs) 41,  47 

Johni  (Roger^) 42 

John^  Jonathan^) 44,  52 

John''  (Amos6) 47,  64 

John''  (John6) 48,  65 

JohnS  (John*) 9,  37,  39 

Johns  (John  Russell'') 49 

John^  (Joshua'') 51 

Johns  (John^) 53 

Johns  (David^) 63 

JohnS  (James'') 65,  93 

Johns  (John'') 66,  95 

John s  (John  Lutz'')     67,97 

John9  (Zachariahs) 99 

John  A.9  (JamesS) 91 

John  A. 9  (WilliaraS) 99 

John  B. s   (Isaac'') , 56 

John  C 113 

John  H.  9  (Isaacs) 79 

John  L.''  (Stephen «) 48,    66 

John  R.''  (John  6) 43,  49,  50 

John  P.s  (SamueP) 68 

John  T.s  (Isaac'') 52,  72 

John  W.9  (Samuels) 98 

John  W 113 


Jonathan^  (John*) 37 

Jonathan^  (Isaac^) 40,  43 

Josephine^  (George  W.s) 74 

Joshua''  (Jonathan^) 44,  50 

Judson®  (Townsends) 71 

Julia  B.  1 0  (Davids) 104 

Kate  C.»  (John  T.S) 73 

Kate  E.9  (William  C.s) 80 

Kate  R. ^  (Samuel  W.s) 88 

Lamar^  (Townsend^) 71 

Laura  B.  9  (William  H.s) 95 

Laura  W.^  (James^) 91 

Lavinia''  (Amos^) 47 

LeanderS  (Isaac'^) 52,  72 

Lelia9  (HiramS) 94 

Lemira  C.s   (John  Lutz^). .  .7,  67 
Leonard  G.9  (William C.s)70,  101 

Letitia  M 113 

Lewis  A. 9  (Anson  M.s) 75 

Lewis  P.  9   (Anson  M.s) 75 

Lionne  M.9  (FrancisS) 96 

Lizzie  C.9  (John  T.S) 73 

Lizzie  E.9  (IsaacS) 79 

Lodema9  (William  C.S) 70 

Lodema^  (JamesS) 91 

LoisJ.s  (Samuel  W.'') 61,  62 

Lois  M.i  0  (George  M.^) 107 

Louis9  (William  H.s) 95 

Louis  M.9  (George  M.s) 89 

LucindaL.io  (Amos  V.^) 108 

Lucretiai "  (Allen  W. ») 108 

Lucretia^  (WilliamS) 99 

Lucy''  (Jonathan^) 44 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


137 


Lucy''  (Reuben^) 46 

Lucy^  (Ransom^) VO 

Lucy  Ann^  (Joshua ■'^) 51 

Lucy  Ann^  (Jesse''') 52 

Lucy  B.8  (Archibald  M.'^) 54 

Lulu  V.  9  (Isaacs) 100 

Lura  M.9  (Francis^) 96 

Luthera^  (TownsencP) 71 

Mariahs   (Joshua'') 51 

MariaS  (David'') 63 

Margaret  L.9   (George  W.^). .  74 

Mary2  (Isaac^) 14,  30 

Mary 5  (John*) 37 

Mary  "J  (Jobs) 47^  48^  63 

MaryS  (James") 65 

Mary 9  (RansomS) 70 

Mary 9  (DelansouS) 72 

MaryS  (Cornelius'') 57 

MaryS  (John'') 64 

Mary9  (AmosS) 93 

MaryS  (Zachariah^) 99 

Mary 113 

Mary  A.''  (John^) 43 

Mary  A. 8  (George^) 50 

Mary  A.^  (Reuben'') 54 

Mary  A.^  (David'') 63 

Mary  B.^  (Isaac^) 100 

Mary  C.9  (JamesS) 71 

Mary  C 112 

Mary  E.^  (SamueP) 68 

Mary  E. 9   (John  T.s) 73 

Mary  E.  9  (Horace  W. 8) 77 

Mary  E. 8  (Milton  B. "J) 62 


Mary  E.9  (SaraueP) 98 

Mary  G. 9  (George  W. 8) 74 

Mary  G.^"   (George  W.^) 103 

Mary  J.«  (Isaac'') 52,  56 

Mary  K.^  (John^) 66 

MaryL.8   (John  Lutz'') 66 

Mary  L.  ^  (Archibald  M. ») . . .   77 

Mary  M.^  (James  M.^) 78 

Mary  S.^  (David«) 76 

Matilda^  (Horace  W.8) 77 

Martha"  (Ezekiel^) 94 

Maudi «  (Frank  C.^) 102 

Maurices  (James  M.s) 78 

Meads  (Joshua^) 50 

Miller  S.i »  (Hiram  R.^) 106 

Milton  B.''  (Reuben6)..46,  60,  62 

Mina  M.^    (Isaac^) 79 

Minnie^  (Anson  M.^) 75 

Minnie'  0  (James  W.^) 110 

Mira'''  (Reuben^) 46 

Nancy''  (David^) 45 

Nettie  F."  (Reuben  G.^) 90 

Nellie  0.9   (William  H.s). .. .   95 

Norman 9  (James  M.  8) 78 

Olive  M.9  (William  C.®) 80 

Oliver  H.8  (Jaraes^) 67,  97 

Oliver  H.  P. »  (John^) 64,  94 

Orsamus  T 112,  113 

OrvilleH.8  (Samuel  W.^).-7, 

59,   61,   80 

Orville  H.^  (Orville  H.8).83,  106 

Oscar  R.9    (Francis^) 96 

Ottaio  (Frank  C.^) 102 


138  THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 

Pamela' (John 6) 48      Russell''   (Roger^) 11,42 

Percy  P.9  (Samuel^) 98      Ruth  B 112 

Polly ■^  (Uavid6) 45      Ruth  H 112 

Polly'  (Reuben«) 46      Sally '  (Davids) 45 

Polly'  (John6) 47      Sally^  (John') 53 

Rachel'   (John^) 48      Samson 114 

Rachel^  (James') 65      Samuel^  (Zachariahs) 41 

Rachel  B. 9  (Davids) 76      Samuel'  (Job^) 48,67 

Rachel  C. 9  (Samuel 8) 98      Samuel*   (David') 63,  90 

Rachel  E. 8  (Samuel') 68      Samuel*  (Samuel') 68,98 

Ransom*  (Joshua') 51,69      SamueP  (Samuel*) 90 

Ransom  W.  9  (WilliamC.*)70,  101      Samuel  E."   (Samuel*) 98 

Raymond  G.i"  (William  M.  9)  102      Samuel  S.i«  (AmosV.^) 108 

Rebecca  H.*  (Samuel  W.')61,  62  Samuel  W.'  (Reuben6)12,  46,  57 

Remember^  (Isaaci) 14,  29  Samuel  W.*  (Samuel  W.')..5, 

Reuben^  (Isaac^) 11,   40,  45  62,  83 

Reuben'   (Jonathan^) 44,53      Samuel  W.^  (Byron*) 83 

Reuben*  (Cornelius') 57      Sarah 13 

Reuben*  (Reuben  G.*) 90      Sarah 2  (Isaac i) 14,30 

Reubens  (James*) 91      Sarah^  (Isaac^) 33,34 

Reuben  G.*  (Milton  B.').. 63,  89      Sarah s   (John^) 37 

Reuben  G. 9  (William  C.*)...   70      Sarah ^  (John 5) 39 

Rhoda'  (John") 47      Sarah' (Jonathan^) 44 

Richard^  (John*) 37      Sarah*  (Joshua') 51 

Richard  H.9  (Byron*) 83      Sarah^   (Isaac^) 41 

Robert  H.  9  (Samuel  W.  *)....   89      Sarah*  (James') 65,67 

Robert  W.  9  (George  M.  *)....   89      Sarah*  (Delanson*) 72 

Roger^  (JohnS) 39,41      Sarah  A.*  (Isaac') 56 

Rose  Anne6  (JohnS) 39      Sarah  A.  9   (Isaac*) 79 

Rosanna*  (David') 63      Sarah  C. 9  (Horace  W.*) 77 

RufusK.9  (David*) 76,  105      Sarah  E 113 

RufusK.io  (RufusK.9) 105      Sarah  H.*  (Cornelius') 57 

Rusaelie  (John«) 39      Sarah  J.*  (John') 64 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


139 


Serena®  (Reuben'') 54 

Sophia^  (Leandei-s) V2 

Sophronia?  (James'') 65 

Stephen^  (Zachariah^) 41,  48 

Stephen  W.®  (John  Lutz'')..  .   66 

Susan  L. 9  (James  M. 8) 78 

Susan  C.i"  (Amos  V.o) 108 

Sybil  F.»   (John^) 64 

Sylvia  A.9  (Horace  W.«) V7 

Teressa  B.®  (John  Lutz'')....   67 

Theodore^  (John®) 94,  110 

Theron  Y.^  (Ransom«) 70 

Thomas 113 

Thomas*   (Isaac^) 35 

Townsend^  (Isaac'') 52,  71 

Volneyi »  (Jasper  W.^) 109 

Walter  M.^  (Francis®) 96 

Walter  M. 9  (James®) 71 

Walter  S. 9  (David®).. 5,  7,  8, 

76,  104 

Warren  E.^  (Francis®) 96 

Warren  W.i"  (Amos  V.^) 108 

Warren  W.^  (Ira®) 97 

Wanzer  D.'"  (DuaneF.^) 111 

Weltha  A. 9  (Oliver  H.®) 98 

William"  (John^) 43 

William®  (Samuel "') 68,  99 

William^  (William®) 100 


Williami »  (Theodore^) 110 

William^  (Zachariah®) 99 

William 112,  113 

William  B.9  (David®) 76 

William  B.o  (Ainos®) 93 

William  C.®  (Joshua"') 51,   70 

William  C.®  (Archibald  M.^).   54 

William  C.®  (James^) 57,  80 

William  C.9  (Anson  M.®)....  75 
William  F.^  (Andrew  J.«)  ...  95 
William  F.i"  (Ransom  W.9).101 

William  H.®  (John^) 66,  95 

William  H.^  (Horace  W.8)77,  105 

William  H 114 

William  J. 9  (Oliver  H.®) 97 

William  J 112 

William  M. 9  (William  C.®)70,  102 

Willis  L.i "  (Jasper  W.  9) 109 

Willis  R.9  (George  C.®) 73 

Willis  W.9  (Isaac®) 79 

Willougfby3  (Isaac2)...9,  34,  36 

Willoughbys  (Isaac*) 36 

Wilmina9    (William C.®) 80 

Winfield  S.9  (Oliver  H.®). . . .  98 
Zachariah^  (Jesse*). 9,  10,  11, 

38,  40 

Zachariah®  (Samuel "') 68,  99 

Zachariah9  (Enoch®) 100 


140 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


OTHER  THAN   ALLERTONS. 


Adams,  Amelia  S 56,  78 

Aikens,  Mr 86 

Albro,  Mr 39 

Alden,  Mr 28 

Alexander,  William 66 

Allen,  Betsey   59 

Allen,  Edward  P 15 

Allen,  Ethan 59 

Amory,-  Rufus  King 55 

Andress,   Polly 44,  52 

Andrews,  James  M 71 

Armistead,  John 33 

Astor,  Henry 58 

Astor,  John  Jacob 58 

Atherton,  James 46 

Atherton,  John 46 

Atherton,  Lois 40,  46 

Atherton,  Lucy 46 

Austin,  Ann   M 74 

Avery,  Rev.  Mr 23 

Babcock,  Isaac 95 

Babcock,  Martha 65,  95 

Baker,  George 78 


Bailer,  Lois 65,  94 

Bailer,  Peter 94 

Bailey,  Alfretta  E 113 

Barnaby,  Joshua 66 

Barlow,  Thomas 46 

Barrett,  Molly 39,  41 

Bassett,  Polly 44,  50 

Bauo-hman,  Marv 67 

Baum,  Rebecca 65,  93 

Beaton,  George 71 

Beesler,  John 99 

Belden,  Eliza 46,  62 

Belden,  Taber 46 

Berry,  John  B 76 

Betts,  Cyrastus 51 

Betts,  Letitia 70,  101 

Bingham,  Hamilton 75 

Billington,  John l7 

Bishrod, 34 

Blackman, 63 

Blackman,  Lavinia 50 

Blocker,  Simeon 91 

Brassen,  Henry 27 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


141 


Bradford,  William 13,  16, 

18,   19,  20,   21,   22,  30 

Bramm,  Gustavus 77 

Breiding,  Henry 110 

Breiding,  Ida 94,  110 

Brewster,  Fear 19,  29 

Brewster,  Patience 19 

Brewster,  William 16,  17, 

18,  19,  27,  29,  33 

Brown,  Peter 17 

Bryan,  George 72 

Bryan,  Jane 52,  72 

Bryan,  Joshua 52 

Bullock,  Benjamin 44 

Burdick,  Endora 93,  109 

Burger,  Kate 93 

BurliDgame,  Rosanna 39 

Burmiston,  William  C 74 

Burris,  Frank 78 

Bushrod,  Apphira 34 

Bushrod,  John 34',  36 

Buttolph,  Charles  E 98 

Campbell,  Amanda 67,  97 

Campbell,  Samuel 39 

Carpenter,  Dillon 14 

Carr,  Aaron  H 73 

Carbough,   Cart)line 108 

Carson,  David 99 

Carver,  John 16,  18 

Castle,  E.  M 41 

Castle,  Moses 41 

Castle,  Theodore 41 

Chamberlain,   Rebecca 44,  54 


Chamberlain,  Mr 86 

Chapin,  Ahira 52 

Chapin,  Ann 52,  71 

Chapman,  Ann  H 70 

Clay,  Henry 87 

Codd,   St.  Leger 33 

Colclough,  George 32 

Collson,  Emma 71,  102 

Colson,  Luvina  R 51 

Cooke,   Francis 17 

Cook,  James 51 

Cooper,  John 25,  26 

Cooper,  Mensin 39 

Cooper,  Rosanna 37,  39 

Corbins,  Anne 36 

Corbins,  Gawin 36 

Corfield,  William 31 

Cradock,  23 

Crage,  Rachel 47 

Cushman,  Thomas 18,  30 

Daniels,  James  N 79 

Drake,  Isaac  C 74 

Davis,  Rose 13 

Dawson,  Harriet  A 45,  56 

Dean,  Eliza  A 80 

Delap,  Clara  E 7,  90 

Delap,  Wesley 90 

Denius,  Levi 65 

Dobbin,  Margaret  R 54,  74 

Dudley,  Mary  J 52,  72 

Dunham,  Isaac 45 

Durland,  Clark 56 

Edwards,  John  A 75 


142 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


Eggleston,  Hamilton 50 

Eggleston,  Nicholas  J 50 

Erwin,  Libbie Ill 

Evans,  25 

Evans,  Gervase 54 

Eyres,  Isaac 34 

Eyres,  Simon 25,  34 

Fellows,  Frank  H 92 

Fisher,  Calista  E 94,  111 

Fitch,  Dr 45 

Franklin,  Benjamin 00 

Fuller,  Anna 14 

Fuller,  Seneca 04 

Fulmer,   Samuel 05 

Gage,  Levi 53 

German,  Reuben 44 

Gerrard,  John 33 

Gibson,  Margaret 05,  94 

Gidflings,  Elvira  A 04,  91 

Gillet,  Abner 45 

Glines,  Fanny 04,  91 

Godbertson,  Godbert..l4,  22,  23 

Godbertson,  Zarah 23 

Goble,  Mary  E 50,  78 

Goffe,  Judge, 24 

Goodman,  John 17 

Goodyear,  25 

Gorham,  Augusta 55 

Granger,  Samuel  S 94 

Greeley,  Horace 87 

Green,  Jane  A 51,  70 

Grigson,  Rene 35 

Guthrie,  Eliza 73 


Gutherie,  Jennie 73,  102 

Hall,  Thomas 27 

Halstead,  Mr 80 

Hand,  Marcia  L 53 

Hanson,  Fannie  E 95 

Harding,  Sarah 78,  106 

Harriman,  John 27 

Harmon,  Augustus 27 

Harrison,  Mr 88 

Hartshorn,  E.N 00 

Hartzell,  Sarah 08,  99 

Hatherly,  Timothy 20 

Hayden,  H.  E 34 

Haynes,  John 24 

Headley,  Joseph 03 

Hemingway,  Hiram  G 53 

Hersom,  Adelaide  L 70,  104 

Hersom,  Andrew  J 104 

Hess,  Peter  M 53 

Heusted,  Clarissa 40,  57 

Hewlett,  Edmund  P 72 

Hill,  Harvey 07 

Hill,  RollaL 94 

Hoagg,  Mary  A 07,  97 

Hoagg,  Samuel  G 97 

Hoffman,  Alice  T 73,  103 

Hogg,  Thomas 00 

Hoge,  Hannah 70,  102 

Holcomb,  Ebenezer  L 52 

Holden,  Henry  F 66 

Holston,  Riley 91 

Hooper,  William  B 76 

Hopkins,  Roswell 45 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


143 


House,  Addison 64 

Hoyt,  Amanda .64,  92 

Hufman,  Martha 48,  65 

Hungerford,  Hannah 53,  73 

Hungerford,  Mariam 11 

Huntington,  Eliza  A 51,  Vl 

Hurd,  Daniel 58 

Hurd,  Ebenezer 58 

Hurd,  Hannah 46,  57,  58 

Hurd,  Rebecca 58 

Hurd,  Hebron 75 

Hurd,  Rachel  W 55,  75 

Hustace,  William  A 76 

Hutson,  H.  D 7 

Husong,  Mary 47,  64 

Hyer,  Perry 64 

Irish,  Lavina 76,  105 

Irish,  Samuel  Knight 105 

James,  George 41 

James,  Polly 41 

Jenks,   Albert  E 93 

Joseph,  John 68 

Johnstone,  Hugo  R 88 

Judd,  Elizabeth  R 74,  103 

Judd,  William 103 

Keene,  Hannah 34,  36 

Keene,  William 34 

Kellogg,  Eleanor.' 48,  67 

Kendall,  Mary 34 

Kendall,  William 34 

Keift,  Gov 23 

Kinnel,  Emanuel 65 

Knapp,  Mary 68,  100 


Knight,  Jennie  E 56,  78 

Koon,  John 52 

Kynett,  James 68 

Kynett,  Mrs.  James 7,  67 

Lafarge,  Elizabeth 57,  80 

Lathrop, 61 

Laughlin,  Sophronia 47 

Leatherdale,  Luke 64 

Lee,  Hancock 34 

Lee,  Richard 33,  34 

Leggett,  Ida  C 86,  106 

Leggett,  John  T 106 

Leggett,  Mary  A 63,  89 

Leonard,  Dr 81 

Lockwood,  Charles  D 80 

Lockwood,  Tamar  H 74 

Logue,  L.  G 88 

Londorf,  Margaret 93,  110 

Ludwick,  Jacob 56 

Lupper,  John 47 

Lutz,  Catherine 41,  48 

Lynch,  Kittie 98 

Mabbett,  Lois 63,  89 

Mackey,  Hetta 66 

Martin, 45 

Mason,  George 32,  33 

Masterson,  Richard 14 

Massasoit 18 

Matthews,  Mary  E 74,  103 

Matthews,  William  S 103 

Maverick,  Moses 22,  23,  30 

McCoy,  Sarah 67,  97 

McDaniel,  Eliza 56,  79 


144 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


McDaniel,  Hiram 79 

McDonnel,  William 63 

McKee,  Elizabeth 68,  99 

McKee,  J.  T 99 

McLaughlin,  Susan 68,  100 

Mead,  Bathsheba 40,  43 

Mead,  Bishop 34 

Mead,  Joshua 43 

Mead,  Samuel  B 15 

Meaker,  William 26 

Merritt,  William U 

Miller,  Maria 44,  53 

Mitchner,  Jane  G Y,  68,  98 

Montgomery,  Janet 40,  44 

Montgomery,  Gen'l  Richard . .   44 

Morriss,  Humphrey 33 

Morton,  William 21 

Nash,  47 

Nash,  Thomas 25 

Neff,  Maria 49,  69 

Newton, 34 

Newton,  Allerton 33,  34 

Nichols,  Barnabas  A 53 

Nicholson,  Gov 33 

Neill, 32 

Nickleson,  Anna  A 92,  109 

Niewander,  Mary  A 63,  91 

Nobles,  Isaac 71 

Norris,  Mary 14,  16,  29 

Norton,  John 54 

Norton,  Mr 86 

Oby,  Henrietta 66,  96 

Oby,  Joseph 96 


Ocanny,  Daniel 33 

Otter,  Ann  E 56,  77 

Overzee,  Simon 32 

Owen,  Calvin 45 

Paine,  Robert 26 

Palmer,  Ellen  P 64,  92 

Papin,  Francis  S 88 

Parks,  Bathsheba 44,  54 

Parker,  Adam 72 

Partello,  Eva 68,  99 

Patterson, 47 

Peigh,  Nancy 65,  93 

Pemble,  John 63 

Perham,  Louisa  L 113 

Perry,  Bro 25 

Peterson,  John 27 

Petrice,  George  H 62 

Phillips,  Elsie 39,  41 

Phillips,  Rebecca 58 

Pierce, 22 

Plank,  Addison  J 73 

Pool,  Elizabeth 48,  67 

Porter,  Abby  M 49,  69 

Preston,  Edward 27 

Priest,  Degory 13,  14,  16 

Priest,  Sarah 14,  30 

Purington,  Daniel  W 49 

Quills,  36 

Quills,  Mary 36 

Quills,  Sarah 36 

Randall,  Addison 67 

Randall,  Stephen 67 

Ransom,  David 40 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


145 


Rapelyea,  Caroline 52,  72 

Reed,  John 45 

Reeves,  48 

Rheard,  Robert 98 

Robertson,  Harriet 92 

Robson,  Charlotte  A 55,  76 

Rogers,  Minnie  A 69 

Rundell,  Lewis   51 

Runnels,  David 40 

Salisbury,  Matilda  C 76,  104 

Salisbury,  Thomas 104 

Salmon,  John 31 

Sargent,  Sarah  T 68 

Sawyer,  Lucy 46 

Scarlet,  Capt 27 

Scott,  Jane 45,  56 

Scranton,  Amelia 66,  95 

Selden,  Dwight 64 

Sheares,  Timothy 63 

Sherley,  James 20 

Sherman,  Alice  R 59 

Sherman,  Cornelia 69 

Sherman,  David  H 59 

Sherman,  Hannah  L 59 

Sherman,  Helen   62,  83 

Sherman,  Lois  J 59 

Sherman,  Mary 59 

Sherman,  Samuel 59 

Sherman,  Shadrac 59 

Sherman,  Walter 59 

Short,  Seneca 69 

Silvers,  Mary 47,  64 

Smith,  George 85 


Smith,  J.  H 45 

Smith,  Moses 77 

Smith,  Sarah  A 90,  107 

Southworth,  Edward 14 

Spaulding,  Dr 45 

Spaulding,  Adaline 43,  49 

Spaulding,  Lucy 37,  40 

Spencer,  Nathaniel 37 

St.  John,  George  B 67 

Standish,  Miles 18,  28 

Staples,  Ernest 77 

Starr,  Allerton 34 

Starr,  Benjamin 34 

Stebbins,  Ellery 75 

Stebbins,  Fitzalan 57 

Stevens,  Mary 70,  101 

Stiles,  Chloe 41,  46 

Stiles, • 24 

Stidd,  Antoinette 77,   106 

Stone,  Elizabeth 79,  106 

Straight,  Thomas 37 

Sturgis,  Mr 85 

Sweet, 37 

Sweet,  Calvin 53 

Swift,  Lemuel  J 51 

Swope,  Amelia 63,  90 

Tabor,  Mrs.  Amanda 61 

Tabor,  Ernest 61 

Tabor,  William 61 

Teeters,  Richard  W 68 

Tickens,  Randolph 14 

Tilden,  Charles 64 

Tilden,  Jasper 7 


146 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


Thomas,  Ruth  C 112 

Thompson,  Agnes  C 62,  83 

Thompson,  Astor  C 85 

Thompson, PamillaW. 61,  83,  85 

Tobey,  Mr 85 

Townsend,  Charlotte 44,  52 

Travers,  Elizabeth 33,  34 

Ti-avers,  Rebecca 33,  34 

Travers,  Samuel 34 

Travers,  William 34 

Travers,  Winifred 33,  34 

Truax,  George  E 77 

Turner,  Mr 95 

Van  Alstyne,  Lawrence 46 

Vanostan,  Elizabeth 63,  91 

Vincent,  John 14 

Vredenburgh,  Henrietta 89 

Vredenburgh,  Robert  M 89 

Warden,  Frank 79 

Warren,  Moses 64 

Washington,  Col.  John 32 

Way,  John  W 98 

Weaver,  John 65 

Webster,  J.  W 107 


Webster,  Josephine  D 89,  107 

Welch,  Esther 51,  70 

West,  Lieut  .Gov 42 

West,  Elsie 42 

Whalley,  Judge 24 

Wilcox,  Philander 45 

Wiles,  Sarah 94,  110 

Wilken,  Joseph 78 

Wilson,  Alice 90,  108 

Willett,  Captain 27 

Willard,  Mr 86 

Williams,  Charles 77 

Williams,  Roger 21 

Willoughby,  Elizabeth 30,  32 

Willoughby,  Thomas 32 

Winchell,  Martin 55 

Winchell,  Sylvia 45,  55 

Winslow,  Edward..  16,  17  19, 

21,  28 

Winthrop,  John 22,  24 

Wonson,  Louisa 113 

Woolsey,  George 27 

Young,  John  D 74 

Young,  Mary  C 90,  108 


INDEX    TO   APPENDEX. 


Allerton,  Bartholomew 122 

Allerton,  Elizabeth 

..  119,    120,   122,   123,   125 

Allerton,  Frances 123 

Allerton,  Isaac 118,  119, 

120,   121,  122,  123, 
124,   125,   126,   129 
Allerton,  Johanna.  122,   124,  125 

Allerton,  John 122 

Allerton,  Mead 124,  125 

Allerton,  Sarah 122,  123,  125 

Allerton,  Walter  S 122 

Allerton,  Willoughby..  .120,  123 

Ashley 124 

Bacon,  E.  C 124 

Bacon,  Leonard   124 

Barker,  Dorothy 128 

Barret,  Margaret 126 

Bevercote,  Samuel 116 

Bracket,  John 128 

Bracket,  Mary 127,  128 

Bradford,  Gov.  115,  116,  11 7,  118 
Brewster,  Fear 118,  122 


Brewster,  Jonathan  115,  117,  118 

Brewster,  Love 117,  118 

Brewster,  Lucretia 118 

Brewster,  Mary 115,  117 

Brewster,  Patience 118 

Brewster,  Prudence 116 

Brewster,  William 115, 

116,   117,   118 

Brewster,  Wrestling 118 

Brishe,  Ursula 119,  120,  121 

Broin,  Hugh 120 

Brown,  George  E .117 

Buckens,  Phebe 129 

Bullard,  Ann 127 

Burgess,  Thankful 129 

Bushrod,  John   123 

Butterfield,  Mary 127 

Champion, 124 

Chandler,  Ann   119 

Chandler,  Job 119 

Cleveland,  Ann 128 

Cleveland,  Elizabeth 128 

Cleveland,  Isaac 128 


148 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


Colburn,  Elizabeth 127 

Colclough,  Elizabeth 120 

Colclough,  George 119, 

120,  121,   123 

Collier,  Sarah 118 

Cornwaley,  Thomas 119 

Cushraan,  H.  B 124 

Davison,  William 115,  116 

Edwards,  Priscilla 126 

Elizabeth,  Queen 115 

Eyres,  Simon 123 

Farwell,  Olive 127 

Fletcher,  Mary 127 

Gerould,  Mattie 129 

Hale,  Hannah 127 

Hall,  Elizabeth 128 

Harriman,  John 124,   125 

Haynes,  Elizabeth 128 

Henry  VIII,   King 115 

Herbert,  Margaret 120,  121 

Hoadley 124 

Holt,  John 124 

Holt,  William 124 

James,  George 125 

Jearould,  Molly   129 

Jefes,  Hannah 127 

Jerould,  Reuben 129 

Jewell,  Mercy 127 

Johnson,  Christopher 119 

Keene,  Hannah 123 

Lee,  Hancock 123 

Manning,  Capt 127 

Mattrora,  John 119,  120,  121 


Newton, 123 

Norris,  Mary 122 

Overzee,  Elizabeth 120 

Overzee,  Sarah 119 

Overzee,  Simon  119,  120,  121,  123 

Phillips,  Margaret 129 

Prence,  Thomas 117,  118 

Robertson,  John  W 121 

Robertson,  Moses 121 

Robinson,  John 117 

Sandys,  Archbishop 115 

Shepard,  Betty 129 

Shepard,  Hannah 129 

Shurtleff,  Dr 124 

Spaulding,  Agnes . . . . ' 128 

Spaulding,  Alpheus 129 

Spaulding,  Andrew 127,  129 

Spaulding,  Azirah 129 

Spaulding,  Benjamin  ...126,  127 

Spaulding,  Charles 129 

Spaulding,  Curtis 129 

Spaulding,  Daniel 129 

Spaulding,  Deborah 127,  128 

Spaulding,  Dinah 127 

Spaulding,  Dorcas 128 

Spaulding,  Edward  126,  127,  128 

Spaulding,  Ennis 129 

Spaulding,  Eunice 127 

Spaulding,  Grace 126,  127 

Spaulding,  Hannah 127 

Spaulding,  Isaac 128 

Spaulding,  Jacob 128,   129 

Spaulding,  Johannah 129 


THE    ALLERTON    FAMILY. 


149 


Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 
Spauld 


ng,  John 126,   127 

ng,  Joseph  .126,   127,   128 

ng,  Josiah 128 

ng,  Lucy 126,    129 

ng,  Margaret 126 

ng.  Mary 128 

ng,  Philip 128 

ng,  Rachel 128 

ng,  Samuel 127 

ng,  Timothy 127 

ng,  Unis 128 

ng.  Rev.  V 128 

117 


Spauld 
Standish,  Miles 


Stanhope,  Sir  John 116 

Starr,  Benjamin 123 

Thomson,  Richard  .  119,   120,   121 

Thomson,  Sarah 119,  120 

Thompson,  Richard 119,  120 


Thoroughgood,  Adam 119 

Thoroughgood,  Sarah. .  .119,  121 

Travers,  Frances ...  123 

Travers,  Samuel 123 

Trowbridge,  Francis  B 124 

Warren,  Sarah 128 

Willard,  Simeon 127 

Willoughby,  Allerton 121 

Willoughby,  Elizabeth ...  120, 

121,   123 

Willoughby,  Samuel 121 

Willoughby,  Sarah.  119,  120,  121 
Willoughby,Thomas  119,  120,  121 

Willoughby,  William 121 

Winn,  Rebecca 127 

Winslow, 117 

Yardley,  Francis 119 

Yardley,  Mrs 119 


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